Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : tenser
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Mon Jan 08 2024 06:26 am

-=> tenser wrote to Dr. What <=-

 te> It was always easy to pick out the kids who'd been
 te> exposed to COBOL and then learned C; their C code
 te> tended to be overly verbose and not terribly idiomatic.
 te> It'd take them a good while to come up to speed.

I suppose learning Pascal helped - subroutines defined first, no
GOTOs...

All the coding I did in college and the only code I have remaining from
that time is the original DOS batch file for my BBS, all errorlevel
jumps and GOTOs...



.... It is quite possible (after all)
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