On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Steven D'Aprano < st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:20:11 -0800, Vincent Manis wrote: > > > When I was approximately 5, everybody knew that higher level languages > were too slow for high-speed numeric computation (I actually didn't know > that then, I was too busy watching Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men), and > therefore assembly languages were mandatory. Then IBM developed Fortran, and > higher-level languages were not too slow for numeric computation. > > Vincent, could you please fix your mail client, or news client, so > that it follows the standard for mail and news (that is, it has a > hard-break after 68 or 72 characters? > > Having to scroll horizontally to read your posts is a real pain. > > You're joking, right? Try purchasing a computer manufactured in this millennium. Monitors are much wider than 72 characters nowadays, old timer.
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