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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: I use Eiffel! and other "strange tongues"!
Date: 1997/08/03
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Matt said

<<Fortran I introduced the "Subroutine" in a high level langauge to the
world.
>>

Only to the extent that Fortran I introduced high level languages at all,
the notion of subroutine is much older, and much more fundamental. You
might as well say that Fortran I introduced assignments, variables etc.
to the world of high level languages ...