i've talked too much

[goddess32585]

there is a fortran colouring book from MIT Press sitting next to me. and that's by no means the most disturbing thing i've seen today.

to overcompensate, however, i simply must rec harikonotora for helping prove an assertion i saw recently, that "90% of the internet's non-pr0n content is pictures of cats."

bad movie was a wash :( back to hass reading.

Comments

[davidglasser]

fortran colouring book wha?

[allonymist]

It's mine. Come over some time and have a look. It's... special.

[summerrose]

What does one color in a fortran coloring book?

[allonymist]

I don't think one does, so much. It's a hand-written introduction to Fortran (circa 1978) with goofy cartoons of ducks, elephants, people, computers, and the like. You could color in the cartoons, I guess, or the capital letters (which are sometimes written as outlines), or the pictures of punch cards. Or you could color every other line in a light green in order to simulate computer paper of the day. The fortran advice is pretty good from what little I know of fortran: I particularly like the extent to which it emphasizes pitfalls, common sources of error, ways to avoid pissing off the whole computer room staff, and bits of the Fortran spec that different compilers handled differently. There are many corny jokes, about 10% of which are good, and about 5% of which are offensive by modern standards.

Parts of it are definitely worth scanning and reviewing if I can find somebody with a good book scanner.

[cktraveler]

*cackles*

That's the book I learned programming from! If I didn't still have it I'd think I must have imagined it. How I got a copy of an MIT Press textbook at age 10 when I didn't come to Boston until I was in my mid-twenties I haven't figured out yet.