On 26/06/2016 16:47, Cousin Stanley wrote:
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
....
but I'm sure we'd have a revolt
if Python comparison operators looked like:
a .eq. b
a .ne. b
a .gt. b .or. c .lt. d
a .le. b .and. c .ge. d
....
As someone who learned fortran in the mid 1960s
and pounded a lot of fortran code in the 1970s,
the code above seems very readable ....
I did a year of it in the 1970s. Looks funny in lower case though.
(Note, for those who don't know (old) Fortran, that spaces and tabs are
not significant. So those dots are needed, otherwise "a eq b" would be
parsed as "aeqb".)
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