Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bob Eager Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN Date: 24 Sep 2024 22:05:45 GMT Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <5mqdnZuGq4lgwm_7nZ2dnZfqnPSdnZ2d@earthlink.com> <1r0e6u9.1tubjrt1kapeluN%snipeco.2@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 3DD8wFQ2YPVmBlyXehGpIAVemZXS8TjW21TffFr1fyX21+GvT7 Cancel-Lock: sha1:MDS+cxKVDPjjaBtswD9NfAVPmP8= sha256:HYKX/ahyHwzNfk9Lr82caEmeZtl8xK1bJ/Zb945UDH4= User-Agent: Pan/0.145 (Duplicitous mercenary valetism; d7e168a git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:58399 alt.folklore.computers:226958 On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 14:11:19 +0100, Sn!pe wrote: > Lars Poulsen wrote: > >> On 23/09/2024 23:45, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote: >> > Hey, want "Real Computing" ? Try FORTRAN or COBOL. THOSE were the >> > foundation and persist to this day. Wrote a FORTRAN app just a >> > couple of years ago - mostly to vex the New Guys. Also a short >> > COBOL app, that oughtta REALLY give 'em the shits ! :-) >> >> Back in 1985, I changed jobs from a University computer center, where >> we did our technical documentation using Univac's @DOC processor, to a >> small industrial computer system integration firm, where we built >> real-time systems on RSX-11M. I missed the @DOC so much that I wrote a >> re-implementation in FORTRAN IV. Used it for years afterwards, until I >> landed at a larger house doing communications work on Unix, and >> switched to /troff/. >> >> > No mention of ALGOL, the ALGorithmic Language? It was contemporaneous > with both FORmula TRANslator and COmmon Business-Oriented Language. > The problem with ALGOL was the absence of a defined I/O system. -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org