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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!snipe.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 14:11:19 +0100 Organization: Sn!peCo World Wide Wading Birds Lines: 27 Message-ID: <1r0e6u9.1tubjrt1kapeluN%snipeco.2@gmail.com> References: <pan$96411$d204da43$cc34bb91$1fe98651@linux.rocks> <5mqdnZuGq4lgwm_7nZ2dnZfqnPSdnZ2d@earthlink.com> <vcub5c$36h63$1@dont-email.me> Reply-To: snipeco.1@gmail.com (Sn!pe) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 15:11:20 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: snipe.eternal-september.org; posting-host="d70217e65fea870786a02a9236ce23b3"; logging-data="3386015"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX181qEvAQaVNv3VcquppR+Kw" User-Agent: MacSOUP/2.8.6b1 (ed136d9b90) (Mac OS 10.13.6) Cancel-Lock: sha1:pJE7noEy40R9QOmy4OkGMV0IMw4= X-Face: 5<x+vv{"AHN,F~/dhf,X*~1zNv[TF/WUe(Uw.*ZOw\P'Ju]C6].T~7Z5cVjV\xTO6&)1#VQ iZ4vFDG X-Disclaimer: Any advice that I may give is worth only what I paid for it. This article comprises only my personal opinions unless otherwise stated. May contain traces of nuts. X-Copyright: Copyright (c) 2024 Sn!peCo WWWB, All Rights Reserved. This article may be reproduced for the purposes of propagation and personal use only, no commercial use without express permission. X-Validate: All genuine Sn!peCo articles contain the header: "Injection-Info: snipe.eternal-september.org;" my registered FQDN. X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett; WonK; Large Enid; Lydia Dustbin X-Tongue-In-Cheek: Always Bytes: 2994 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/. > No mention of ALGOL, the ALGorithmic Language? It was contemporaneous with both FORmula TRANslator and COmmon Business-Oriented Language. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL> -- ^�^. Sn!pe, PTB, FIBS, Pro Crastinator My pet rock Gordon just is.