So-Called Real Programmers and FORTRAN

From: Ben Franchuk <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
Date: Fri Apr 26 13:46:59 2002

"Douglas H. Quebbeman" wrote:

> My Data Structures prof lamented the fact (by his observation)
> that most people write Pascal in its FORTRAN subset...

10 C WHAT SUBSET IS THAT?
20 C MY GRIPE WITH PASCAL WAS THAT IT WAS ALL ONE PROGRAM
30 C EVERY FORTRAN AFTER II COULD HAVE MODULES DEFINED
40 C .NOR. COULD YOU EVER FIGURE OUT
50 C WHEN TO PUT A SEMI-COLEN .OR. .NOT. AT THE END OF A
60 C STATEMENT
100 STOP
Received on Fri Apr 26 2002 - 13:46:59 BST