Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!eos!eugene From: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: who said what (was fortran 8x) Message-ID: <1245@eos.UUCP> Date: 9 Aug 88 17:24:14 GMT References: <133@garfield.RDL.COM> <20931@beta.lanl.gov> <1228@eos.UUCP> <1188@garth.UUCP> Reply-To: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif. Lines: 14 In article <1188@garth.UUCP> smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan) writes: >Didn't Backus say `I don't what language we'll be using in the year 2000, >but it'll be called Fortran.' I don't know, but I will ask him when I see him. I've also heard this of Cray as well (will see him in November). Let's try to solve this one once and for all. Another gross generalization from --eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@aurora.arc.nasa.gov resident cynic at the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers: "Mailers?! HA!", "If my mail does not reach you, please accept my apology." {uunet,hplabs,ncar,decwrl,allegra,tektronix}!ames!aurora!eugene "Send mail, avoid follow-ups. If enough, I'll summarize."