Re: The joy of FORTRAN

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/.
 
 

Isn’t @DOC  a lot simpler than troff? A few years ago I wrote a program to
convert some documentation to HTML. I didn’t know @DOC but I learned all I
needed to know from the manual in a half-hour or so. It IS very similar to
products from other vendors, though.

--
Pete