My first programs were written in FORTRAN II.
My first programs were written in FORTRAN II. The language was really quite terrible; I wish I still had some of those programs I wrote, I'd like to see how they looked written before Dijkstra's "GOTO considered harmful". To me, programming during that time, it seemed like FORTRAN's evolution stalled at a critical period between FORTRAN IV and FORTRAN 77. I'd been exposed to LISP, PL/1, SOBOL, and APL in my university programs and it was frustrating to use FORTRAN IV for non-numerical projects. The last time I did so was around 1974 when I wrote a LR parser generator in FORTRAN IV. The lack of mechanisms for handling structured data made it a messy job. It was at that point that I came across the source for the Wirth's first Pascal compiler that ran on the computation center's CDC 6400. I learned Pascal by studying that code and I never wanted to go back to FORTRAN (or PL/1). A few years later the greatly improved FORTRAN 77 became available, but it was too late. C and Pascal were real and gaining ground and Algol 68, CLU, Alphard, Scheme, the Red and Blue languages, and ADA had captured the imagination of the language designers.
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I understand and previously agreed with Mozilla's hard line privacy and security stance.
☂️ Reinforcement: Add more basic components to the core framework
Adding templating to more notification providers
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My first programs were written in FORTRAN II.
My first programs were written in FORTRAN II.
My first programs were written in FORTRAN II. The language was really quite terrible; I wish I still had some of those programs I wrote, I'd like to see how they looked written before Dijkstra's "GOTO considered harmful". To me, programming during that time, it seemed like FORTRAN's evolution stalled at a critical period between FORTRAN IV and FORTRAN 77. I'd been exposed to LISP, PL/1, SOBOL, and APL in my university programs and it was frustrating to use FORTRAN IV for non-numerical projects. The last time I did so was around 1974 when I wrote a LR parser generator in FORTRAN IV. The lack of mechanisms for handling structured data made it a messy job. It was at that point that I came across the source for the Wirth's first Pascal compiler that ran on the computation center's CDC 6400. I learned Pascal by studying that code and I never wanted to go back to FORTRAN (or PL/1). A few years later the greatly improved FORTRAN 77 became available, but it was too late. C and Pascal were real and gaining ground and Algol 68, CLU, Alphard, Scheme, the Red and Blue languages, and ADA had captured the imagination of the language designers.
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