... darkrealms ...

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

comp.lang.fortran

Putting John Backus on a giant pedestal

5,127 messages

[ << oldest | < older | list | newer > | newest >> ]

Message 4,731 of 5,127

Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Gary Scott

Re: Is there a way in Fortran to designa

06 Oct 24 01:58:40

   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 5 Oct 2024 19:39:31 -0500, Gary Scott wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   How could it have been better without regular expressions?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)

[ << oldest | < older | list | newer > | newest >> ]