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From: geodandw <geodandw@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2024 15:09:44 -0400
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On 9/27/24 13:43, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On 2024-09-27, geodandw <geodandw@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Cobol was also very portable.
> 
> As long as your destination compiler supports COMP-3.  :-)
> 
Or your source computer didn't have COMP-3, or if you didn't use it.