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From: Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: 26 Feb 2025 00:17:06 GMT
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On Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:47:16 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:

> Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> wrote:
>> On Tue, 25 Feb 2025 13:43:06 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:
>> 
>>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 25 Feb 2025 19:33:40 -0000 (UTC), vjp2.at wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Assembler and COBOL were needed but avoided
>>>> 
>>>> Assembler can be fun.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> Especially PDP-10 assembler. Wonderful instruction set.
>> 
>> Especially JUMP and SKIP!
>> 
>> 
> What was nice was its orthogonality.

Absolutely.



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