17 Mar
2018
17 Mar
'18
5:42 a.m.
On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 2:52 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
We lost computer pioneer John Backus on this day in
2007; amongst other
things he gave us FORTRAN (yuck!) and BNF, which is ironic, really, because
FORTRAN has no syntax to speak of.
FORTRAN isn't that bad. F77 had too much and too little whitespace
significance, but from what I've heard, F90 is pretty decent.