Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Hibou Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: GNU Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:17:42 +0000 Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <10ojmjv$2ashr$1@dont-email.me> <10q03vf$1o2ev$1@dont-email.me> <10q0c18$1qua9$1@dont-email.me> <10q0f40$1s10c$1@dont-email.me> <10q1etr$9gh8$1@artemis.inf.ed.ac.uk> <10q2o3v$nqm7$1@news1.tnib.de> <10q3kgr$2val0$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 2dvooysS934Szmlsgv3CIQzcneM1RtJjVAe6MWn/GVq1Di3mHc Cancel-Lock: sha1:7lt9eJGkf/WoBhBQLNGDCn8xIwk= sha256:HFxLKS9k8jSFzq7UGSkMTNAx4Xiv4HVfiNEyal3lTcs= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB, fr In-Reply-To: <10q3kgr$2val0$1@dont-email.me> Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:84115 alt.usage.english:1140999 Le 26/03/2026 à 15:48, John Bokma a écrit : > On 26/03/2026 08:43, Marc Haber wrote: >> >> Pascal was my first "real" programming language. I surely don't know >> where I would have ended up otherwise. > > Same here. I even bought it together with an Acorn Archimedes A310. PL/I for me. Must've taken a wrong turning. A lot of Fortran later on. I remember a programmer looking at some of my Fortran and asking what language it was - because I'd realised it was quite in order to indent statements to make the code easier to read, as long as one kept out of the reserved columns.