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From: Bill Findlay <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Delays for implementations of Fortran features
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 13:26:09 +0000
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On 19/01/2014 13:03, in article lbgiej$kcv$1@speranza.aioe.org, "Nasser M.
Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> wrote:

> In the good old days, a computer language was simple and could be
> learned in few days from cover to cover. Now it takes years
> and one still can't learn everything in it.

There was nothing good about the old days other than the efforts of the
people who worked to give us what we enjoy today.

-- 
Bill Findlay
with blueyonder.co.uk;
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