Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 14:11:19 +0100, Sn!pe wrote:

Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> 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/.
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No mention of ALGOL, the ALGorithmic Language?  It was contemporaneous
with both FORmula TRANslator and COmmon Business-Oriented Language.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL>

The problem with ALGOL was the absence of a defined I/O system.

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