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Re: (Mastermind) puzzle (with 3 digits) -- Elegant (readable) code Sought

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by: Lawrence D'Oliv - Mon, 4 Mar 2024 21:04 UTC

On Mon, 4 Mar 2024 10:30:26 +0000, HenHanna wrote:

> 41. Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand
> progress. -------- For example?????

PHP being the obvious one. It manages to copy features from other
languages (initially Perl, currently Python) without quite understanding
how they’re supposed to work, and so completely botching them.

> 42. You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on
> the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

That was the first language I learned, even before I got my hands on a
computer, back in the day. I have been through so many others since then,
I thought Fortran had had its day.

But have you looked at the specs for Fortran-90 onwards? It has gone free-
format. It has proper control constructs, so you can write entire programs
without statement labels at all. It has local variables and recursion. It
has structured types and something resembling object orientation. (OK, so
pointers might still be a bit clunky.)

And above all, it has “coarrays”, for partitioning work among the nodes of
a massively parallel supercomputer. If you want proof that Fortran is
still relevant to the modern computing era, this is it.

"It's not just a computer -- it's your ass." -- Cal Keegan

devel / comp.lang.lisp / Re: (Mastermind) puzzle (with 3 digits) -- Elegant (readable) code Sought

Subject	Author
Re: (Mastermind) puzzle (with 3 digits) -- Elegant (readable) code Sought	Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Re: (Mastermind) puzzle (with 3 digits) -- Elegant (readable) code Sought	Paul Rubin
Re: Parenthesis Pileup (was Re: (Mastermind) puzzle (with 3 digits) -- ...)	Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Re: Parenthesis Pileup (was Re: (Mastermind) puzzle (with 3 digits) -- ...)	Kaz Kylheku
Re: (Mastermind) puzzle (with 3 digits) -- Elegant (readable) code Sought	Kaz Kylheku
Re: (Mastermind) puzzle (with 3 digits) -- Elegant (readable) code Sought	Paul Rubin
Re: (Mastermind) puzzle (with 3 digits) -- Elegant (readable) code Sought	Paul Rubin
Re: (Mastermind) puzzle (with 3 digits) -- Elegant (readable) code Sought	Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Re: (Mastermind) puzzle (with 3 digits) -- Elegant (readable) code Sought	Paul Rubin
Re: (Mastermind) puzzle (with 3 digits) -- Elegant (readable) code Sought	Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Re: (Mastermind) puzzle (with 3 digits) -- Elegant (readable) code Sought	George Neuner
Re: (Mastermind) puzzle (with 3 digits) -- Elegant (readable) code Sought	Paul Rubin
Re: (Mastermind) puzzle (with 3 digits) -- Elegant (readable) code Sought	Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Re: (Mastermind) puzzle (with 3 digits) -- Elegant (readable) code Sought	Paul Rubin
Re: (Mastermind) puzzle (with 3 digits) -- Elegant (readable) code Sought	Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Re: (Mastermind) puzzle (with 3 digits) -- Elegant (readable) code Sought	Paul Rubin
Re: (Mastermind) puzzle (with 3 digits) -- Elegant (readable) code Sought	Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Re: (Mastermind) puzzle (with 3 digits) -- Elegant (readable) code Sought	Paul Rubin
Re: (Mastermind) puzzle (with 3 digits) -- Elegant (readable) code Sought	Kaz Kylheku
Re: (Mastermind) puzzle (with 3 digits) -- Elegant (readable) code Sought	Nuno Silva
Re: (Mastermind) puzzle (with 3 digits) -- Elegant (readable) code Sought	Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Re: (Mastermind) puzzle (with 3 digits) -- Elegant (readable) code Sought	HenHanna
Re: (Mastermind) puzzle (with 3 digits) -- Elegant (readable) code Sought	Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Re: (Mastermind) puzzle (with 3 digits) -- Elegant (readable) code Sought	HenHanna
Re: (Mastermind) puzzle (with 3 digits) -- Elegant (readable) code Sought	Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Re: (Mastermind) puzzle (with 3 digits) -- Elegant (readable) code Sought	Andreas Eder