Error Testing
rusi
rustompmody at gmail.com
Thu Oct 31 12:05:04 EDT 2013
On Thursday, October 31, 2013 8:50:27 PM UTC+5:30, Neil Cerutti wrote:
> wrote:
> > This suggests that Pascal went against established practice.
> > This is false. FORTRAN used = and that was a mistake caused by
> > the language being hacked together haphazardly.
> Respectfully, the designers of FORTRAN deserve more respect than
> that characterization accords.
???
If I say: "My uncle -- a pilot -- knows more about flying planes than
the Wright brothers" am I disrespecting the Wright brothers??
The state of art shifts with time. Fortran was more pioneering than
most languages that followed -- does not mean it got everything right.
>From Backus Turing award speech:
---------------------
Although I refer to conventional languages as "von Neumann languages"
to take note of their origin and style, I do not, of course, blame the
great mathematician for their complexity. In fact, some might say that
I bear some responsibility for that problem.
http://www.thocp.net/biographies/papers/backus_turingaward_lecture.pdf
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