Starting to wonder if there's a kind of brain thing that happens to Old Man Programmers. A kind of last great polemic nostalgia, where all you kids have never heard of any history and you're all fucking it up because you discarded all the good computer ideas back in the 1970s before you were born.
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@jmc Every time I see someone represent currency values as a float, I have to stop myself from telling others that COBOL solved this problem in 1958.
Oh, and all those nice linear algebra routines in numpy, etc.? It's all FORTRAN underneath. Not only that, it's a FORTRAN translation of ALGOL60 code published in 1970.
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