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Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that
From: Lawrence D'Oliv
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From: ldo@nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
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Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that
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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.

Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that
From: root
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["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.misc.]
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
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> 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.

Subject	Author
Re: Joy of this, Joy of that	Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Re: Joy of this, Joy of that	root