octopii was . Re: [Gllug] Website developement

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On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, David Irvine said:
> Nothing wrong with fortran, its like intercal but without the logic.

It also doesn't have the fun manual, the wonderful ABSTAIN FROM and
equally wonderful COME FROM[1], and the immortal error message

PROGRAM HAS DISAPPEARED INTO THE BLACK LAGOON


[1] nor does it have COBOL's equally hideous ALTER, to change the
    target of a goto at runtime; yes, a real language with this in.

    (Now you know one reason why people hate COBOL. Pray you never
     learn the rest. ;) )

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