Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 02:38:46 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: aw1@stade.co.uk, "freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Fortran (was Re: Why is Python slower on FreeBSD thanWindows?) Message-ID: <3C6F8836.854BAC2F@mindspring.com> References: <20020215145841.O33755-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> <3C6D22C2.268E6915@pythonemproject.com> <20020215145841.O33755-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> <4.3.2.7.2.20020216134025.01cfd980@localhost>
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Brett Glass wrote: > Funny thing about Algol: When Algol-60 (which had some features that > neither FORTRAN nor C has, such as range and bounds checking) for > UNIVAC hardware was completed, scientists at Case Institute > of Technology (where I did my undergraduate degree) ported some old > government code over and tried to run it. The machine immediately > reported runtime errors. Variables were undefined; subscripts were > going out of bounds; the results that were produced if the errors > were ignored were virtually random. > > And now the punch line: the code they'd ported had been used in > the design of nuclear weapons. > > I trust neither FORTRAN nor C to this day. Who cares about that... did they work? 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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