On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 09:05:04 -0700, rusi wrote: > 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 knows more about flying planes than > the Wright brothers" am I disrespecting the Wright brothers?? No, but that's not what you said. What you said was that "the [FORTRAN] language [was] hacked together haphazardly." That's like me saying that when your uncle flies, he just pulls and pushes levers and knobs randomly hoping he doesn't crash - and that would be disrespecting your uncle. -- Denis McMahon, denismfmcma...@gmail.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
