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From: R Daneel Olivaw <Danny@hyperspace.vogon.gov>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 19:55:08 +0200
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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 wrote a program which converted @doc to html at one point, that was 
probably around 2005.  One thing it could not handle was figures, I had 
to convert them by hand.  It will have been written in @FTN or @ACOB, 
using the SYSLIB INFOR$ and SDFI interfaces, I abandoned it when I ran 
out of DOC elements to convert.