Re: The joy of FORTRAN

Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me> wrote:

On 9/25/24 16:03, Scott Lurndal wrote:

Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> writes:

rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
 

On Wed, 25 Sep 2024 11:03:13 +0800, Woozy Song wrote:
 

When I went to uni in the 70s, the computer science lecturer had a
hard-on for Pascal, the latest and greatest. Always slipped in snide
remarks about BASIC or COBOL in most classes.

 
Better Pascal than Modula/Modula-2.  I swear as soon as anybody figured
out how to do anything useful with one of his languages Wirth designed a
new, more obscure version.
 
https://www.modula2.org/tutor/chapter8.php
 
Chapter 8 - Input/Output
In preparation
 
That sums it up. I've heard Wirth's languages described as programs that
are designed to tell secrets to themselves.

 
Wirth: His name is pronounced "virth" if by reference, and "worth" if by value.
 
I found the original Pascal to be confining.
 

 
VAX-11 Pascal, on the other hand, was wonderful. Enough useful
extensions to make it a very viable systems programming language.
 

 
 
Indeed, but a bitch to work out how to call Vax C from Vax Pascal, or
vice versa. Life was so much harder before search engines and the internet.
 
 
 

I thought that was one of the VAX’s strong points. Common runtime for all
language and calling sequences explicitly spelled out.

--
Pete