Reply to post: Re: What the hell is C++, Java, C# and the other drivel?

Dropbox would rather write code twice than try to make C++ work on both iOS and Android

MrBanana

Re: What the hell is C++, Java, C# and the other drivel?

It is not true that ALGOL 60 had no IO - it just lacked a consistent mechanism across different implementations. So no single "Hello World" program could be compiled on all the different variants.

I used later versions, so I am not that familiar with FORTRAN I. But even the Wikipedia entry indicates that, although FORTRAN I was close to the IBM 704 assembler, some things like the IF statement was not a direct equivalent of the CAS – Compare Accumulator with Storage instruction. Also the FREQUENCY statement could be used to give runtime weightings to the brach operator - that's way more high level in language terms than a simple assembler.

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