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From: gordon@cae780.UUCP (Brian Gordon)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: Request for computer science bloope
Message-ID: <1207@cae780.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 21:08:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: cae780.1207
Posted: Fri Aug  9 21:08:50 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 06:36:52 EDT
References: <115@uw-june> <53100120@trsvax>
Reply-To: gordon@cae780.UUCP (Brian Gordon)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc. (CAE Systems Division), Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <53100120@trsvax> wkb@trsvax writes:
>   After FORTRAN (short for FORmula TRANslation) became popular, the University
>of Waterloo decided to write their own version, calling it "WATFOR" presumably
>meaning "WATerloo FORmula translation".  When they came out with a revision of
>the compiler, it was naturally called WATFIV.

Not quite complete, though.  After all, the new Fortran it was modeling was
Fortran IV, so the WATFIV interprets well either way.

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