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From: Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: 24 Sep 2024 13:21:17 GMT
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On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 05:26:19 -0700, 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/.

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.

I made it work on a GEORGE 3 ICL system, and on something else. It was 
infinitely superior to the manufacturer's offering.




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