[TUHS] I can't drive 55: "GOTO considered harmful" 55th anniversary

[Lawrence Stewart]

> On Mar 10, 2023, at 12:57 PM, Paul Winalski <paul.winalski at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Phil Budne wrote in
>> <202303101630.32AGU2OD008070 at ultimate.com>:
>> |ron at ronnatalie.com wrote:
>> |
>> |I still remember the days when you could find C code written by PASCAL
>> |programmers,[.]
> 
> Someone once observed that a skilled FORTRAN programmer could write
> FORTRAN in any programming language.
> 
> -Paul W.

Once taught a programming languages class at Stanford, with assignments in Pascal, APL, LISP, and SNOBOL.  The SNOBOL was to solve a crossword by pattern matching, given the grid and the solution words.

One kid had by far the fastest solution, in SNOBOL, but if you held up the listing at arm’s length you would swear it was FORTRAN.

I write my FORTRAN code in C these days.

-L