Re: Structured Fortran - was Re: Self modifying code, lambda calculus

[ben]

On 9/23/2015 2:39 AM, ANDY HOLT wrote:

From: "Chuck Guzis" <ccl...@sydex.com>

…

After all, languages are supposed to expose features
of the underlying machine to the programmer.

Many believe that the purpose of languages is to HIDE (abstract) the underlying
machine.

The 60's idea that MACROS could do that seems to have faded away.
Ben.