> FORTRAN was proposed by Backus and friends, and again was opposed by almost all programmers. First, it was said it could not be done. Second, if it could be done, it would be too wasteful of machine time and capacity. Third, even if it did work, no respectable programmer would use it -- it was only for sissies!

- Richard Hamming, The Art of Doing Science and Engineering

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marcodiego 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

In some sense... I bet there are more people writing assembly than FORTRAN today.

	▲	dismalaf 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Doubtful. Fortran is big in HPC and has modern versions.
	▲	pklausler 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I'll take that bet.

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pklausler 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

That was obviously before FORTRAN existed.

	▲	Jtsummers 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Because, of course, Real Programmers use FORTRAN. https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rni/papers/realprg.html