4 Dec
2019
4 Dec
'19
1:20 a.m.
On 12/03/19 02:55, Dave Horsfall wrote:
As every computer programmer should know, John Backus
was emitted in
1924; he gave us the BNF syntax, but the sod also gave us that FORTRAN
obscenity...
A few decades ago, I applied for a job in a place that used VAX FORTRAN
and I knew only a bit FORTRAN II. Knowing several imperative languages,
I told them that I knew it, bought the book "FORTRAN Tools for VAX/VMS
and MS-DOS", and read it in a week, blown away about how far VAX FORTRAN
was from FORTRAN II. It was actually quite reasonable.
N.