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seanhunter
on May 4, 2023
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The seven programming ur-languages (2021)
Years of bitter personal experience have taught me that FORTRAN is the real ur-language in the sense that a suitably determined programmer can write FORTRAN code in just about any language. I have certainly had to debug this code all over the place.
ochrist
on May 5, 2023
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Is this from
https://www.usm.uni-muenchen.de/~hoffmann/roff/tmp/rpdup.pdf
(Real programmers don't use Pascal)?
seanhunter
on May 5, 2023
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That is where the quote originally came from yes. Thanks! I have been looking for that - couldn't remember it precisely. Here's the actual original:
> Besides, the determined Real Programmer can write fortran programs in any language.
lamontcg
on May 4, 2023
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Does this make Perl a FORTRAN?
seanhunter
on May 4, 2023
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I have unFORTRANned thousands of lines of perl code in my time.
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