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From: "Soisson, Stephen M" stephen_soisson {- at -} MERCK {- dot -} COM
Date: 2012-09-12

Now is the time when I start waxing nostalgic about the "old days" when there used to be entire threads on this bulletin board about Fortran format statement syntax for parsing various files.....and I read them with great interest

How did I get to be such a geezer?

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A similar remark was made to me by David Blow, while he was on sabbatical at UNC in the 1980s, working with the UNC Computer Science Department and in a moment of intense frustration with the overpowering ignorance of fortran and the enthusiasm for Unix exhibited by that department.

Charlie
On Sep 12, 2012, at 10:58 AM, DUMAS Philippe (UDS) wrote:

> This remembers me a discussion I had with Jorge Navaza, let's say 15 years ago, about the programming language of the future.
> (To a good approximation, 15 years ago, the future was now)
> The answer by Jorge was: "I don't know what it will be, but I know it's name will be FORTRAN".
> I hope he will confirm the statement...
> Philippe Dumas
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