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Re: Taking the bull by its horns [was background]

Yukihiro Matsumoto

7/18/2007 2:54:00 PM

Hi,

In message "Re: Taking the bull by its horns [was background]"
on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:38:16 +0900, John Carter <john.carter@tait.co.nz> writes:

|bg: fortran,mortran,algol,basic,pascal,dcl,c,c++,lisp,scheme,assembler,perl,awk,sh,R,joy,sql,...

Just curious, but what is mortran? Fortran for Martians?

...Sorry, I couldn't resist after seeing your name. I was a fan of
Burroughs novel when I was young.

matz.

male 42y
bg: BASIC,FORTRAN,Pascal,C,C++,Emacs Lisp,Scheme,AWK,sh,Perl,...and Ruby. (Yey)
wk: Open Source Developer
location: Matsue-city Shimane-prefecture, Japan

2 Answers

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky

7/18/2007 3:11:00 PM

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Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In message "Re: Taking the bull by its horns [was background]"
> on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:38:16 +0900, John Carter <john.carter@tait.co.nz> writes:
>
> |bg: fortran,mortran,algol,basic,pascal,dcl,c,c++,lisp,scheme,assembler,perl,awk,sh,R,joy,sql,...
>
> Just curious, but what is mortran? Fortran for Martians?

Mortran was Macro Fortran. It came out of one of the California
"high-energy physics" labs, and it was a pre-processor that generated
Fortran code. I never used it, but it had some features that were
missing from the prevalent Fortran dialect of the day, Fortran 66, that
later made it into the mainstream Fortran language.

> male 42y
> bg: BASIC,FORTRAN,Pascal,C,C++,Emacs Lisp,Scheme,AWK,sh,Perl,...and Ruby. (Yey)
> wk: Open Source Developer
> location: Matsue-city Shimane-prefecture, Japan

You left off CLU. ;)


John Carter

7/18/2007 10:20:00 PM

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