25 Oct
2008
25 Oct
'08
6:15 a.m.
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Scott Silva ssilva@sgvwater.com wrote:
When I learned Fortran IV in 1980 my teacher said that Fortran and Cobol were the languages of the future!
Sheesh! When I learned Fortran IV in 1974, we had the WatFour and WatFive compilers, and were getting ready to upgrade to Fortran V. Algol 68 was the language of the future.
All that changed when I learned Pascal at UCSD in 1978, another "language of the future" that still is....
Still, we built a whole OS based on UCSD Pascal 2.0 (and then modified it extensively) in 1980, and that was fine until I moved into DYNIX in 1987 - loved it, and C, and stayed there.
That's why I love Linux. Sort of.
mhr