On 30/10/2013 21:43, Albert van der Horst wrote:
FORTRAN used = and that was a mistake caused by the language being hacked together haphazardly. Groetjes Albert
Yes, just imagine the massive amount of research that they had to go on, given that Alan Turing had written *THE* paper some 20 years earlier and it was 10 years since Tommy Flowers delivered Colussus. Mind you, maybe there's just a tiny little bit of hindsight behind your remark :)
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