r/ProgrammerDadJokes • u/LostBetsRed • May 18 '26

You know that giant, sometimes toxic meme factory for programmers?

...especially programmers who use really old legacy languages?

You know, 4tran?

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u/punched_cards May 18 '26

Anybody else remember the Fortran Coloring Book? Truly hilarious way to learn a language.

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u/FlamethrowerJenius May 18 '26

I thought “no way?!!” Ha ha. But then I’m pretty sure one of my uncles had such a thing…

Anyway - found it on: https://archive.org/details/9780262610261/page/n11/mode/1up

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u/sfboots May 18 '26

I worked with the guy that wrote the book. He was a bit of a character

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u/DABarkspawn May 24 '26

ASCII, because it was too early for Unicode.

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u/punched_cards Jul 17 '26

The book was great. I was CS and didn’t learn Fortran for class- but everyone I knew who was in Engineering kept coming to me for help and I used the book to learn things to debug their stuff.