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Lisa Awards: Most Format Restrictive Language
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Fortran pre-90 was very restrictive. There is the magic of column one, the line numbers, etc. The original Fortran was written for the IBM 704 and you programmed it on punch cards which is why the restrictions were in place. Before Fortran, most of the community were coding using assembler, and Fortran was a factor of 20 more concise. Take that modern Ruby! There were some close runners up. Fortran 90 fixed a bunch of these issues, however it was a touch too late. Some forms of Basic has some of the issues too, namely with the explicit line numbers.
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