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From: demoel@ruunsa.fys.ruu.nl (Ed de_Moel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: semicolon
Message-ID: <1743@ruunsa.fys.ruu.nl>
Date: 10 Nov 90 22:09:02 GMT
References: <1990Nov10.014132.13255@hayes.ims.alaska.edu>
Organization: University of Utrecht, Dept. of Physics
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In <1990Nov10.014132.13255@hayes.ims.alaska.edu> fxjcz@acad3.fai.alaska.edu
(ZARLING JOHN C) writes:

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>Fortran, the new language where you don't need to use semicolons.

Now, wait until we see:

> FORTRAN, the new language where you don't need to use spaces...
> FORTRAN, the new language where indentation is for the birds...
> FORTRAN, the new language, where writing code that is readable
>          to humans, is not forbidden, but hardly ever written...

etc. etc. etc.

How about:

Forth, the new language in which anything new is soon to be discovered...

ed