Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bob Eager Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN Date: 25 Sep 2024 15:12:13 GMT Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <5mqdnZuGq4lgwm_7nZ2dnZfqnPSdnZ2d@earthlink.com> <1r0e6u9.1tubjrt1kapeluN%snipeco.2@gmail.com> <6tDIO.25202$afc4.3071@fx42.iad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net P+CuZxGtaPKli81CzbLCMAt0FjMSjBWcmfsjVgNKWKziNmoGCX Cancel-Lock: sha1:s3GXMHgcvrkamwDRqrQVju93L5c= sha256:vxWKdQ3+ZiwvrUSVKqGY67P8cv8rucxBhFIfcNYA0YA= User-Agent: Pan/0.145 (Duplicitous mercenary valetism; d7e168a git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:58451 alt.folklore.computers:226998 On Wed, 25 Sep 2024 08:00:03 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote: > Bob Eager wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties: > >> On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 23:45:51 +0000, rbowman wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 21:14:04 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >>> >>>> PL/I was IBM’s attempt at a Grand Unification of both “business” and >>>> “scientific” programming in one language. If you thought C++ >>>> programming was full of surprises when your program did unexpected >>>> things, PL/I invented the whole genre of “surprise-ridden programming >>>> language” >>> >>> IBM was always so modest. Programming Language One. A Programming >>> Language. >> >> A colleague of mine wrote a powerful macro processor (which I still use >> and maintain). He called it Macro Language One - ML/I. He loved taking >> the piss out of IBM. > > What, no m4? :-) > > My older projects use a lot of m4. For newer projects I'm using Meson. Better than m4 (IMHO). And it predates m4 by a decade. -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org