11 Mar
2023
11 Mar
'23
12:12 a.m.
On Mar 10, 2023, at 12:57 PM, Paul Winalski
<paul.winalski(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Once taught a programming languages class at Stanford, with assignments in Pascal, APL,
LISP, and SNOBOL. The SNOBOL was to solve a crossword by pattern matching, given the grid
and the solution words.
One kid had by far the fastest solution, in SNOBOL, but if you held up the listing at
arm’s length you would swear it was FORTRAN.
I write my FORTRAN code in C these days.
-L
Phil Budne wrote in
<202303101630.32AGU2OD008070(a)ultimate.com>:
|ron(a)ronnatalie.com wrote:
|
|I still remember the days when you could find C code written by PASCAL
|programmers,[.]
Someone once observed that a skilled FORTRAN programmer could write
FORTRAN in any programming language.
-Paul W.