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On Thu, 8 Jan 2026 20:54:14 -0500, c186282 wrote:

> On 1/8/26 14:52, rbowman wrote:
>> On Thu, 8 Jan 2026 02:26:25 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, 7 Jan 2026 19:21:09 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:
>>>
>>>> FORTRAN and COBOL are still around, but I don't thinks anyone from
>>>> the 70s would recognize them.
>>>
>>> COBOL is still COBOL. Fortran has evolved somewhat, post-Fortran-77.
>> 
>> Yeah, you don't need the continuation punch in column 6 :) I should
>> take a look and see if that much has really changed,
> 
>    AAAAUUUGGGHHH ! You just triggered my PTSD about FORTRAN and PUNCH
>    CARDS !!!  :-)

Don't forget the coding forms.

https://archive.org/details/fortrancodingform

More horrors from the past:

https://www.math-cs.gordon.edu/courses/cs323/FORTRAN/fortran.html

I was so scarred by the initial brush with programming it was about 10 
years before I had any interest in it. Of course the game had changed. You 
could wirewrap up a working Z80 on the kitchen table and replace a 3'x3' 
panel full of ice cube relays or a bushel of TTLs with a much less 
physical implementation of logic.