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QOTD: I'd Written FORTRAN Programs---John McCarthy

Guy Steele, Jr.: Q: What experience of practical computer programming did you have before 1958, before you tackled Lisp?

John McCarthy: A: I'd written some FORTRAN programs.

View the Steele/McCarthy interview on InfoQ.

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Posted by Weiqi Gao on May 1, 2009 9:17:08 PM CDT #



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