floating point remark in the reference still true?

When I was a kid we had to get up and walk across the room to change the TV channel...

And we only received 3 channels and 2 of them had snow in the picture.

And Fortran or Cobal were the only high level choices. Anyone one remember those weird Fortran printer control characters you had to use at the start of print lines, yech.

Oh, and get off my lawn ;D

Lefty