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  • Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

    From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.os.linux.misc,comp.lang.misc on Wed Nov 20 00:18:26 2024
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    On Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:09:49 -0000 (UTC), root wrote:

    I call ... junk languages: ... programs written in these are unstable.
    Some modification in these can cause a perfectly functional program to
    stop working because of some change that was not backward compatible.

    I ran into this problem way back in the 70's when I was running Fortran programs on CDC machines. One day my Fortran programs would no longer
    compile because CDC had updated their compiler. I had no recourse other
    than tracking down every "error" and programming around that. Do that
    with a program that ran to 20 boxes of cards.

    If Fortran can be a “junk language” by your definition, then so can any language.
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  • From root@NoEMail@home.org to comp.os.linux.misc,comp.lang.misc on Wed Nov 20 02:33:52 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.misc

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    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

    If Fortran can be a ???junk language??? by your definition, then so can any language.

    It wasn't Fortran that changed, it was the CDC compiler.
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