On 2017-03-17 3:19 PM, Rich Alderson via cctalk wrote:
From: Chuck Guzis
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2017 11:27 AM
On 03/17/2017 11:09 AM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
and, although we don't know when YOU were playing it, the march had
been around half a century, so was probably playing on the r
From: Chuck Guzis
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2017 11:27 AM
> On 03/17/2017 11:09 AM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
>> and, although we don't know when YOU were playing it, the march had
>> been around half a century, so was probably playing on the radio to
>> inspire Backus. Does that mean that Dan.
On 03/17/2017 11:09 AM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> and, although we don't know when YOU were playing it, the march had
> been around half a century, so was probably playing on the radio to
> inspire Backus. Does that mean that Dan. might be right about it
> being the predecessor to FORTRAN?
In response to a question of who provided the Lisa FORTRAN, guy who
insisted that Valtrep was the predecessor of FORTRAN 'course he also
had OS/2 for the PDP-11, and a PROGRAM that could duplicate alignment
disks, . . .
Isn't "Valdtrep" a Norwegian march by Johannes Hanssen?
It's Valdres https:/
On 03/17/2017 10:06 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> Oh, I know--I was making a joke. It's a fine march and I've
> performed it in convert bands many times.
Er, make that "concert bands"
--Chuck
On 03/17/2017 06:46 AM, Torfinn Ingolfsen via cctalk wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 4:31 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
> wrote:
>> On 03/16/2017 08:19 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
>>
>>
>> Isn't "Valdtrep" a Norwegian march by Johannes Hanssen?
>
> It's Valdres https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 4:31 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
> On 03/16/2017 08:19 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
>
>
> Isn't "Valdtrep" a Norwegian march by Johannes Hanssen?
It's Valdres https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valdres
and Valdres march.
--
Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen
On 03/16/2017 08:19 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> In response to a question of who provided the Lisa FORTRAN, guy who
> insisted that Valtrep was the predecessor of FORTRAN 'course he also
> had OS/2 for the PDP-11, and a PROGRAM that could duplicate alignment
> disks, . . .
Oh jeez, not tha
On Thu, 16 Mar 2017, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
Oh, dear--time for a history lesson.
Not quite on a par with:
In response to a question of who provided the Lisa FORTRAN,
guy who insisted that Valtrep was the predecessor of FORTRAN
'course he also had OS/2 for the PDP-11, and
a PROGRAM that
On 03/16/2017 06:28 PM, ben via cctalk wrote:
> But was FORTRAN that portable? Other than the IBM 1130 I cannot think
> of a small computer that had ample I/O and memory to run and compile
> FORTRAN. All the other 16 bitters seem to more paper tape I/O. I
> suspect 90% of all university computers
Who was it who said, "FORTRAN is more portable than syphilis"
I found it!
I thought Djikstra, but it turned out to be Stan Kelly-Bootle:
"The definition of FORTRAN from the "Devil's DP Dictionary", by
Stan Kelly-Bootle:
"FORTRAN n. [Acronym for FORmula TRANslating system.]
One of the earliest
On Thu, 16 Mar 2017, ben via cctalk wrote:
But was FORTRAN that portable?
Who was it who said, "FORTRAN is more portable than syphilis"
Other than the IBM 1130 I cannot think of a small computer
that had ample I/O and memory to run and compile FORTRAN. All the
other 16 bitters seem to more pa
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