Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : tenser
Date : Sat Jan 13 2024 01:15 pm


On 12 Jan 2024 at 06:30a, poindexter FORTRAN pondered and said...
 
 pF> -=> Dr. What wrote to Blue White <=-
 pF> 
 pF>  -=> Blue White wrote to tenser <=-
 pF> 
 pF>  DW> Which is why those old languages are still out there.  FORTRAN, for
 pF>  DW> example, is still used and has been updated.  I think we're up to
 pF>  DW> FORTRAN 90 now.
 pF> 
 pF>  I remember when they "Numerical Recipes in FORTRAN" book became
 pF>  "Numerical Recipes in C". C seemed like the wrong language for the
 pF>  higher-level stuff that FORTRAN did well.

There were a few of those books!  There was one in Pascal too,
and one in C++.  The FORTRAN one got updated to Fortran-90 at
one pint (the original was in Fortran-77).

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