• UnrepentantAlgebra@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Where did he say that about compilers and high level languages? He died before Fortran was released and probably programmed on punch cards or tape.

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      11 hours ago

      I’ll try to find it later, I read he said that in a book from Martin Davis. He didn’t speak about Fortran, I just used it as an analogy