Flashback in the Mail: a Gift From 1976
Recently I purchased a copy of the hoary old tome you see pictured to the right on Amazon: "A Guide to FORTRAN IV Programming" by Daniel D. McCraken, 2nd edition, 1967. For those who have never heard of this ancient language, FORTRAN is one of the original third generation languages. The first generation was true machine language - invoking different CPU instructions through numbered primitives. Next generation was asse...
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