July 20, 2018
12:24 p.m.
On 20 July 2018 at 13:16, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 10:14 PM, Rhodri James <rhodri@kynesim.co.uk> wrote:
I go with SF fandom's traditional :-) definition: "somebody did it once." If it's been done more than once, it's an honoured tradition.
But if Shakespeare did it, it's just the way the language is.
I think Fortran is the programming world's Shakespeare.
Or maybe COBOL: "And lo from yonder file a record doth appear"... Paul