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On 30/10/2013 21:43, Albert van der Horst wrote:
>
> FORTRAN used = and that was a mistake caused by the
> language being hacked together haphazardly.
>
> Groetjes Albert
>

Yes, just imagine the massive amount of research that they had to go on, 
given that Alan Turing had written *THE* paper some 20 years earlier and 
it was 10 years since Tommy Flowers delivered Colussus.  Mind you, maybe 
there's just a tiny little bit of hindsight behind your remark :)

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But the best has yet to be invented.  Christian Tismer

Mark Lawrence