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Putting John Backus on a giant pedestal

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Gary Scott to Lawrence D'Oliveiro

Re: Is there a way in Fortran to designa

05 Oct 24 19:39:31

   From: garylscott@sbcglobal.net   
      
   On 10/5/2024 6:07 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Sat, 5 Oct 2024 13:52:01 -0500, Gary Scott wrote:   
   >   
   >> I really liked the flexibility of string/text processing of IBM's   
   >> DCF/Script/GML.  How that was powerful string handling.   
   >   
   > As good as Perl?   
      
   vastly better, but it was specifically a text (document) processor,   
   vastly different purpose.   
      
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