I hate Fortran

I remember just a few weeks back I hated Matlab. I am now actually in love with Matlab since I'm starting to work with Fortran 77, a language that came out closer to the start of WWII than the present day.
The language was designed to be used with cards and tapes, although I really doubt the program I'm editing was ever designed that way, because the thing is 11000+ lines long... oh yeah the equivalent of one line is one card. Fun.

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[Singularity Dream]

1957 - John Backus and IBM create FORTRAN. There's nothing funny about IBM or FORTRAN. It is a syntax error to write FORTRAN while not wearing a blue tie.

[Bulbasaur]

3242168 That blogpost is amazing Thanks for brightening up my day!

"1987 - Larry Wall falls asleep and hits Larry Wall's forehead on the keyboard. Upon waking Larry Wall decides that the string of characters on Larry Wall's monitor isn't random but an example program in a programming language that God wants His prophet, Larry Wall, to design. Perl is born."

[Singularity Dream]

It's one of my favorites. I re-read it on a regular basis.

1972 - Dennis Ritchie invents a powerful gun that shoots both forward and backward simultaneously. Not satisfied with the number of deaths and permanent maimings from that invention he invents C and Unix.