<div dir="ltr"><div>This is more for the SD list, but...</div><div><br></div>program HellYeah<div> implicit none </div><div> write(*,*) "+1. You never forget your first lover or your first compiler."</div><div> end program</div><div><br></div><div>Now let me argue a case for LISP... she had a lot of parentheses, but so much artificial intelligence...</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 21 October 2014 15:43, Roland Gesthuizen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rgesthuizen@gmail.com" target="_blank">rgesthuizen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Bring back Fortran :-)<div><br><div>
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<br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 20 Oct 2014, at 5:57 pm, Mark <<a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" target="_blank">mark@vceit.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">Do you prefer readability or less typing?</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">On Monday, October 20, 2014, Robert Timmer-Arends <</span><a href="mailto:timmer@westnet.com.au" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" target="_blank">timmer@westnet.com.au</a><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">> wrote:</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u><div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" bgcolor="#ffffff" vlink="purple"><div><font face="Arial">yes, it's a long way from</font></div><div><font face="Arial"></font> </div><div><font face="Arial">017 ADD 1 TO RECORD-COUNT</font></div><div><font face="Arial"></font> </div><div><font face="Arial">to</font></div><div><font face="Arial"></font> </div><div><font face="Arial">recordCount++</font></div><div><font face="Arial"></font> </div><div><font face="Arial">Regards</font></div><div><font face="Arial">Robert T-A</font></div><div><font face="Arial"></font> </div><blockquote style="border-left-color:rgb(0,0,0);border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:5px;padding-right:0px;margin-left:5px;margin-right:0px"><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:10pt;line-height:normal;font-family:arial">----- Original Message -----<span> </span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:10pt;line-height:normal;font-family:arial;background-color:rgb(228,228,228);background-repeat:initial initial"><b>From:</b><span> </span><a title="savage.john.l@edumail.vic.gov.au">Savage, John L</a></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:10pt;line-height:normal;font-family:arial"><b>To:</b><span> </span><a title="itapps@edulists.com.au">Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List</a></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:10pt;line-height:normal;font-family:arial"><b>Sent:</b><span> </span>Monday, October 20, 2014 10:49 AM</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:10pt;line-height:normal;font-family:arial"><b>Subject:</b><span> </span>[Year 12 IT Apps] Ouch!</div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">I just ran across this comment on COBOL by Turing Award recipient Edsger Dijkstra in 1975<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">In 1975 somebody was trying to teach me COBOL, I was inclined to agree.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Laurie Savage<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><a href="http://accelerus.pvgc.vic.edu.au/" target="_blank">http://accelerus.pvgc.vic.edu.au</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><br></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div><br></div><div>Mark Kelly</div><div>mark AT vceit DOT com</div><div><a href="http://vceit.com/" target="_blank">http://vceit.com</a></div><div><br></div><div><i>I love the sound of people's voices after they stop talking.</i></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Mark Kelly</div><div>mark AT vceit DOT com</div><div><a href="http://vceit.com" target="_blank">http://vceit.com</a></div><div><br></div><div><i>I love the sound of people's voices after they stop talking.</i></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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