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by Bluestein 644 days ago
> Lovecraftian Fortran

This is great. "Abandon all hope all ye ..." :)

> perhaps it's the ideas and the concepts that have legacy in computer science, code is just a carrier.

Interesting thought. Only that implementation has consequences on resulting system quality, durability, performance. In other word, it is what we have live (and contend with) in the "flesh" - to follow the genetic analogy ...