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: Fri, 27 Mar 2026 06:41:00 +0000 Lines: 22 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> <1774547182-12588@newsgrouper.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net yzarKXK3D90XWTp7vZ1UjwANKpnCk+VYiVOLpF9x26JULmDSWt Cancel-Lock: sha1:fB3XShHfMXjRuaFDEKD9xVhNxsE= sha256:4RVdKdtIPl3iJ92z8eMI09uYyVRidFHVwCNFZ7fjyoQ= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB, fr In-Reply-To: <1774547182-12588@newsgrouper.org> Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:84160 alt.usage.english:1141064 Le 26/03/2026 à 17:46, athel.cb@gmail.com a écrit : > Hibou posted: >> >> 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. >> > All my early programming (1968-1987) was in Fortran IV, apart from occasional > excursions into Basic. After 1987 it has been Pascal all the way. I was > tempted by Modula 2, but there was no convenient compiler available. I was > never tempted by C or C++. Oh, I was and remain fond of C, especially for twiddling data at a low level and interacting with Unix and its derivatives - yea, even unto favouring the C-shell. (I never really took to the syntax of Bourne or Bourne Again.) Favourite language: C. Least favourite: IBM System/360 JCL.