ACM Sigarch Comp. Arch. News 22, 1 (Mar 1994), 34-43.THE "FORTRAN FALLACY" For 40 years, programmers have tried to utilize mathematical expressions to program computers. Indeed, "FORTRAN" is a contraction of "FORmula TRANslator", because Fortran's selling point was its close relationship to mathematical formulae. For example, one solution of a quadratic equation x=(-b+sqrt(b^2-4ac)/2a in Fortran is X=(-B+SQRT(B**2-4*A*C))/(2*A). Although this one-di
