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Article #5297Re: Third public review of X3J11 C (a scientist speaks up)
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Date: Thu, 25 Aug 1988 21:28
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 1988 21:28
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In article <9@argosy.UUCP> ian@argosy.UUCP (Ian L. Kaplan) writes: > The Fortran 8x committee has its problems, but lack of features is >not one of them. The April '87 Fortran draft standard includes a >number of "modern programming language" features, including something >like structures ... >"I don't know what the most popular numeric programming language will > look like in the year 2000, but it will be named Fortran." Deja vu. In 1963 a commitee (Share) got together to produce FORTRAN V. It had structures, if-then-else, switch statements (spelled 'GOTO <expression>'), eight types of numeric data, and a whole bunch more. After the commitee saw what they had wrought, they decided that it was good. But FORTRAN V was a bad name. So they called the language NPL (New programming Language). When the Naval Physics Lab complained, the commitee changed the name again. And Voila! PL/I was born. Marv Rubinstein
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sm.unisys.com!ism780c!news From: news@ism780c.isc.com (News system) Newsgroups: comp.std.c,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Third public review of X3J11 C (a scientist speaks up) Message-ID: <14379@ism780c.isc.com> Date: 25 Aug 88 21:28:29 GMT References: <64919@sun.uucp> <8358@smoke.ARPA> <4566@saturn.ucsc.edu> <3732@bsu-cs.UUCP> <9@argosy.UUCP> Reply-To: marv@ism780.UUCP (Marvin Rubenstein) Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA Lines: 18