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To: lysie; Peach; Bitwhacker; All
Good morning!

Enjoy your day, Peach...

Interesting story about the Brits taken by the Iranians in Iraqi water....

So! The inventor of FORTRAN has died! Does that ever bring back memories...40 years ago I was a h.s. student taking one of the few computer classes offered at that level in the country...and what were we learning??? Fortran!....oh those cards! learning 010101...Our teacher got so excited about it all, he left the following year and joined some of us at our state university where he began grad studies in systems analysis.

24 posted on 03/23/2007 7:36:13 AM PDT by Molly Pitcher (We are Americans...the sons and daughters of liberty...*.from FReeper the Real fifi*))
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To: Molly Pitcher

Fortran...yes. I remember, too.


25 posted on 03/23/2007 7:38:35 AM PDT by lysie
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To: Molly Pitcher
Greg and Sarah are off to buy one of these...Chevy Cobalt.

She's saved quite a bit of $$ since her other car died and she wants a new one.

26 posted on 03/23/2007 7:41:39 AM PDT by lysie
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Interesting story about the Brits taken by the Iranians in Iraqi water....

Certainly does bring back memories of the Carter years., however , I do think the outcome will be quite different and much sooner.

27 posted on 03/23/2007 7:45:43 AM PDT by lysie
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To: Molly Pitcher

Yep, the inventor of FORTRAN has died, but FORTRAN is still alive!!! I know a few people who still work with it...Actually I think his bigger contribution was Backus-Nauer Form (BNF) which describes the behavior of computer language syntax; pity that he will be remembered for FORTRAN, which I always hated...;-))


28 posted on 03/23/2007 7:46:35 AM PDT by Bitwhacker
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