Error Testing

[Denis McMahon]

On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 09:05:04 -0700, rusi wrote:

> On Thursday, October 31, 2013 8:50:27 PM UTC+5:30, Neil Cerutti wrote:
>> wrote:

>> > This suggests that Pascal went against established practice. This is
>> > false. FORTRAN used = and that was a mistake caused by the language
>> > being hacked together haphazardly.

>> Respectfully, the designers of FORTRAN deserve more respect than that
>> characterization accords.

> If I say: "My uncle knows more about flying planes than
> the Wright brothers" am I disrespecting the Wright brothers??

No, but that's not what you said.

What you said was that "the [FORTRAN] language [was] hacked together 
haphazardly."

That's like me saying that when your uncle flies, he just pulls and 
pushes levers and knobs randomly hoping he doesn't crash - and that would 
be disrespecting your uncle.

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Denis McMahon, denismfmcmahon at gmail.com