[Tfug] Note of Passage

[keith smith]

I was an Accounting major at the UofA in 1983 when I took intro to computers.....

Earl <earljviolet at juno.com> wrote: 
Me too at the University of Minnesota. Not REALLY that long ago.

Earl
"God made man, Sam Colt made men equal."



-- keith smith  wrote:
FORTRAN using punch cards was my intro to computers class at the UofA......



Jim Secan  wrote: For all you (us) dinosaurs lurking on
this list, slashdot reports that John
W. Backus, leader of the IBM team that developed FORTRAN, has died.  As one
who writes 80-90% of his code in FORTRAN, who has been known to dream in
FORTRAN (nightmare?), and still has a FORTRAN 80-column coding pad
(somewhere), I mark his passing as that of a old friend.

Jim
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Keith Smith 



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