Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.misty.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED.news.iecc.com!not-for-mail From: John Levine Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design,comp.arch.embedded Subject: Re: Sorry re history of Fortran, good post on LinkedIn Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:32:32 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Taughannock Networks Message-ID: <10n57l0$1oh2$1@gal.iecc.com> References: <10lmel8$2co0$1@gal.iecc.com> <10loltv$61jr$1@dont-email.me> <10n4juu$27vn4$1@paganini.bofh.team> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:32:32 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: gal.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="57890"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" In-Reply-To: <10lmel8$2co0$1@gal.iecc.com> <10loltv$61jr$1@dont-email.me> <10n4juu$27vn4$1@paganini.bofh.team> Cleverness: some X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Originator: johnl@iecc.com (John Levine) Xref: csiph.com sci.electronics.design:740607 comp.arch.embedded:32528 >HTTPS://compilers.IECC.com/comparch/article >has many non-existent articles for a month - e.g. December 2004 and March >2018 - are all these non-existent articles before a month's last existent >article really monthly FAQ articles? Here's the index for December 2004. Looks OK to me. https://compilers.iecc.com/comparch/index/2004-12 >Mboxes are convenient for threads. > >Downloading compressed mboxes of comp.compilers via FTP would take upto a >few minutes. Instead, downloading HTML versions via HTTPS took more than 1 day. The mboxes still exist. If someone asked nicely it would not be hard to put them on the web server. R's, John PS: >different computer languages), with an estimated readership of over >100,000." >says >HTTPS://WWW.JohnLevine.com/about.phtml > >How do you estimate a news group's readership? based on the number if news servers several decades ago when I wrote that -- Regards, John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly