Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : Danny (at) *nospam* hyperspace.vogon.gov (R Daneel Olivaw)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.misc alt.folklore.computersDate : 24. Sep 2024, 18:55:08
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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.
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