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|    Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Lynn McGuire    |
|    Re: Intel Fortran Help in VS    |
|    27 Jan 24 05:38:26    |
      From: ldo@nz.invalid              On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 23:17:10 -0600, Lynn McGuire wrote:              > On 1/26/2024 10:43 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:       >       >> [PL/I] never caught on much (outside of IBM). Yet Fortran has ended up       >> reinventing a lot of it.       >       > Prime computer used PL/1 to rewrite the Primos Operating System in from       > Fortran (66, I think).              Also used to create MULTICS. You know, the project that Bell Labs exited,       to go on to create a, shall we say, anti-MULTICS.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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