Thursday, April 2, 2009

Funniest April Fool's Page

Google is always a class act on April Fool's, but this one is obvious enough to prevent any confusion about its authenticity.  At the same time, the humor is wickedly subtle. 

Its only mildly funny, in a geeky way, until you check out the FORTRAN SDK.

Don't get it?  Well I guess you had to be there.

Google App Engine Blog: A Brand New Language on Google App Engine!
If you're an enterprise customer and want to take advantage of Google App Engine, but have a large and cumbersome legacy system, we want to make it easy for you to port to the cloud. By providing a Fortran 77 runtime, along with a familiar, easy-to-use deployment mechanism, we hope to make this process efficient and straightforward.

Want to give it a try? Download our SDK and deploy your application by mailing punch cards to:

Google App Engine, C/O APPCFG
1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy
Mountain View, CA 94043


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