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What Roman numerals are to arithmetic

There are many lists of programming languages on the web, but this one has some hilarious quotes, such as:

Consistently separating words by spaces became a general custom about the tenth century A.D., and lasted until about 1957, when FORTRAN abandoned the practice.

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One Response to “What Roman numerals are to arithmetic”

  1. Carrie Says:
    June 5th, 2004 at 4:13 pm

    Is the link broken or is it our POS internet connection timing out again? Geez. This is a funny one – I hope they did not get rid of it! :) Sometimes I think I must have married a geek. ;) Geeks rock!