Re: Wave that shook the world

Thomas Koenig wrote: 
James Van Buskirk <not_valid@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Did anyone notice that that code shown in this episode of
Nova contained snippets like

if(dabs( ... 


Like the original Terminator movie, where we see 6502 assembly
being scrolled through Arnie's field of view.


Star Trek characters are forever complaining about their subroutines - which I take as evidence that they use Fortran (presumably the SD44932 standard).

(OK - people often use "subroutine" as a descriptive term, but most languages use a different word - procedure, method, sub etc. - within the code)

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