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  • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Sunday May 27 2018, @10:43PM (1 child)

    by hendrikboom (1125) on Sunday May 27 2018, @10:43PM (#684937) Homepage Journal

    I learned in the early 60's. Recommended methodology was flowcharts and GO TO statements.

    I read the Algol 60 report and yearned for something better than early Fortran. Then we got a new compiler and could have nonrecursive SUBROUTINES but still no IF THEN ELSE.

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  • (Score: 2) by Dr Spin on Saturday June 16 2018, @10:23PM

    by Dr Spin (5239) on Saturday June 16 2018, @10:23PM (#694057)

    Even Fortran 2 had IF with both then and else.

    More than that: IF (N) did different things for N < 0, N = 0, and N > 0

    It is true that you did not get recursive subroutines even in most versions of Fortran 4.

    Unlike Algol 60, Fortran 4 was not invented in 1904. It just seemed that way.

    Algol 68 is still the best. Take your Python back out into the desert where it belongs.

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