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: 25 Sep 2024 15:13:17 GMT Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net uA9q8Dtnu3BDY0wHalsbJAE2pIUHAbbJiFHQ8U5sKUwwJqcTy5 Cancel-Lock: sha1:wrCEsguwLLmuKdKZZTftE6/dXuM= sha256:zAkO2uqKrnr25Hbm8oPfj4tRamLlr3wiGK3iAopT9n0= User-Agent: Pan/0.145 (Duplicitous mercenary valetism; d7e168a git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:58452 alt.folklore.computers:226999 On Wed, 25 Sep 2024 13:01:16 +0000, Dan Cross wrote: > In article , > Bob Eager wrote: >>On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 17:12:30 +0000, Dan Cross wrote: >> >>> In article , >>> Bob Eager wrote: >>>>I can't remember who originally wrote it, but I came across a version >>>>of 'ed' (the standard UNIX editor, none of this visual stuff) written >>>>in FORTRAN. >>> >>> The first "Software Tools" book by Kernighan and Plauger was written >>> using "ratfor" as the example language; `ratfor` is a "rational >>> FORTRAN" >>> frontend that took a semi-structured language as input and emitted >>> properly-formed FORTRAN code as output. >>> >>> They implemeneted an ed-like editor in ratfor for Software Tools. It >>> wouldn't surprise me if the editor you saw was that, or something >>> derived from it. >> >>No, it wasn't really. I implemented the ratfor one (and all the other >>tools), but the FORTRAN one I'm talking about looks pretty different. >> >>I still have all the files for the software tools in ratfor publihed by >>Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. > > Huh; curious. I wonder who did it, then. Pretty sure it was a colleague. But I can't remember which one. -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org