Sujet : The joy of FORTRAN
De : lars (at) *nospam* beagle-ears.com (Lars Poulsen)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.misc alt.folklore.computersDate : 24. Sep 2024, 14:26:19
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Organisation : AfarCommunications Inc
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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/.
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