Re: The joy of FORTRAN

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.