Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN Date: 18 Oct 2024 00:53:59 GMT Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <20241014080601.00007478@gmail.com> <38fb5a91-5d00-be42-4bfe-2a05232a82c1@example.net> <82bcedf2-be4a-a2da-3f77-fbbed147ef30@example.net> <689497968.750888255.940557.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net vR6mhlPQjc/fDSJNX1cpwAPWbnOm3jr28dAvogd04yyaE1hY6D Cancel-Lock: sha1:gHFKqeK+KhvsFyXDRmlpMIgyCGw= sha256:dwRpTicG1fBs8qS46Ne6u0f1iQ2EDT4WzlNpo9WKj4g= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:227834 comp.os.linux.misc:59529 On Thu, 17 Oct 2024 23:39:22 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > Still, those stories of German businessmen meeting with their U.S. > counterparts in New York in 1940 are a bit chilling. https://www.americanheritage.com/how-america-helped-build-soviet-machine "In the 1920s the cream of American firms involved with automobiles, electricity, and workplace management were eager to sell the state of their art—give or take a few years—to the “Reds,” despite powerful anticommunist voices on the right. The Soviets were ready to buy, despite their aversion to capitalism. (They distinguished, as many Americans cannot even today, between America’s history-shaping means of production and our free-enterprise economic superstructure.) The United States had never enjoyed greater worldwide respect—or envy—than after World War I. The Soviets believed that the American system of production could consolidate the Bolshevik Revolution." https://it.usembassy.gov/america-sent-gear-to-the-ussr-to-help-win-world- war-ii/ Which was the evil empire depended only on who lost the war.