15 Oct
2013
15 Oct
'13
4:33 p.m.
>> Odd question to ask on this list. For
nostalgia, for pleasure, for
>> completing a collection, but /practical applicability/ is about bottom
>> of the list. Unless you're Tony, anyway.
On 16 October 2013 20:06, Tony Duell <ard at
p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Come again?
> I do not run any CDC machiens, so it's not goinh to be of use to me
> running them
> I am not a programmer, so I am unliukely to attempt to implement this
> version of a language on some other hardware
> Surprisingly, althought I am a physicist, I have never written a single
> line of Fortran.
> So quite why do you think this manaul would ahve been of use to me?
On Tue, 15 Oct 2013, Liam Proven wrote:
It was a joke, Tony.
I saw it that way.
The implication was that MOST people would only want it as a nostalgic
artifact, but that Tony would be the exception as to having practical
applicability.