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The joy of fixed column coding. 
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Not to forget the now infamous GOTO, which was indeed a saviour in those days.
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Amarnath S wrote: GOTO, which was indeed a saviour in those days
Not in 1987! Maybe it was true in 1967, although we had had Algol since 1960 (or 1958 for early blomers).
In 1968, we had the first major revision of Algol. Pascal arrived in 1970, Modula in 1975, C++ in 1985.
Dijkstra's "Go to statement considered harmful" is dated 1968.
If you considered GOTO 'a saviour' in 1987, you were either badly uninformed or extremely slow in adopting modern programming trends.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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You will pry my gotos from my cold dead hands.
finite automata, FTW
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In 1987, I was in my pre-final year of Mechanical Engineering degree. Computers were new, having been introduced in India in early 80's, and programming was entirely new to me. Getting hands onto a computer was indeed rare, and somehow I got hands on a VAX VMS mainframe system. Compiling, linking, running - were all new. I had just learnt that there's something called as a 'file' - because the only files known were office files. And we were writing 'files' to implement the Newton Raphson method, the Regula Falsi method, etc.
Against this backdrop, GOTO was indeed a saviour, because what it did was indeed magic. And all my files were not more than 70 or 80 lines long, as it was college-level code.
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Old timers Fortran programmers are retiring and need replacements.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Maybe they can become trainers, coaches. Income after retirement.
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Yes, it's good to know  .. and the comment on this page adds some reasonable explanation:
"... Less than half a year ago, the new ISO Fortran 2023 definition was published. ... Fortran appears to be fast, having native mathematical computation support, mature, and free of charge. Silently, slowly but surely, Fortran gains ground. It is surprising but undeniable. ..."
So, it's time to find my Fortran FFT code which I used back then ...
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From what I've heard, its the NAG, the UK-based Numerical Algorithms Group, which has mainly been responsible for the continued usage of Fortran.
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... headed
Quote: Receive packages at your convenience
How will they know when I'm in there?
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From the giant invisible flashing sign on the roof. That's the only explanation I have for why they always turn up when I'm in there>*. I suspect they have special goggles to spot when it's on.
* My roof, my convenience, obviously.
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Amazon : Alexa, is Richard home ?
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Alexa: "I found 5,000 results for 'ice richer dome'; ordering the ten most expensive for express delivery now." 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Microsoft...please fix this. Is anyone else seeing this behavior?
I'm using the "new" Outlook client that is now bundled nowadays with a default Windows 10 installation. It's much better than the previous generic email client that was included, but this in particular bothers me.
The client downloads the content of my inbox. Some messages are marked as read, others as unread. I manually mark everything as read. I don't even shut down the app, I leave it running in the background all the time.
When the mailbox is refreshed, the messages that I explicitly marked as read revert back to unread. It's like it's not even relaying the fact that messages are now read back to the server, so the refresh undoes my changes.
THIS IS ONLY FOR GMAIL ACCOUNTS. I'm also using the same client to fetch accounts from hotmail.com, outlook.com, yahoo.com, and those all work correctly. Only the Gmail accounts exhibit this behavior.
Has anyone else seen this?
[Edit]
I suspect if I go to the actual gmail site and mark the unread items as read, the local account might fix itself (I haven't tried it yet), but the whole point of having a client that can manage multiple mailboxes is to avoid using the web interface (yuck!).
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WTH...if I shut down the app and reload it, it now remembers I've changed messages from unread to read. So, it doesn't bother persisting that until you shut down, and refreshing the mailbox takes precedence over what the client is tracking...?
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dandy72 wrote: THIS IS ONLY FOR GMAIL ACCOUNTS. I'm also using the same client to fetch accounts from hotmail.com, outlook.com, yahoo.com, and those all work correctly.
On a related note... aren't you the same guy who only uses one browser so only one company is tracking you? I hate to be the bearer of bad news...
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You can gather a lot more by snooping on the browser than just by snooping on email.
Besides, I only have a gmail account because for all intents and purposes, you can't setup an Android phone without one[*].
And no, I don't browse on my phone. I keep as much of it as possible separate from what I do on a PC.
[*] I miss my Windows phone.
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