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From: Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 15:36:57 -0700
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Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> 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/.
> 
> 

Isn’t @DOC  a lot simpler than troff? A few years ago I wrote a program to
convert some documentation to HTML. I didn’t know @DOC but I learned all I
needed to know from the manual in a half-hour or so. It IS very similar to
products from other vendors, though.

-- 
Pete