Re: The joy of FORTRAN

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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