[COFF] Happy birthday, John Backus!

[Nemo Nusquam]

On 12/03/19 02:55, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> As every computer programmer should know, John Backus was emitted in 
> 1924; he gave us the BNF syntax, but the sod also gave us that FORTRAN 
> obscenity... 

A few decades ago, I applied for a job in a place that used VAX FORTRAN 
and I knew only a bit FORTRAN II.  Knowing several imperative languages, 
I told them that I knew it, bought the book "FORTRAN Tools for VAX/VMS 
and MS-DOS", and read it in a week, blown away about how far VAX FORTRAN 
was from FORTRAN II.  It was actually quite reasonable.

N.