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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

He did write some Fortran in his past! What made you think it was Fortran influence?

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago

72 characters per line/card.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'd say because fortran is often used for calculations such as numerical analysis where you have x, y and z for example.

I have written fortran code in the past and it was mainly for that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Your first few programming languages usually influence you the most for the rest of your career.