Re: The joy of FORTRAN

Waldek Hebisch <antispam@fricas.org> wrote:

In alt.folklore.computers 186282@ud0s4.net <186283@ud0s4.net> wrote:

Final note, FORTRAN is *still* good for most
uses. It's fairly clear, un-fancy, and well-tuned
and people added enough to it over the years so
there's hardly any task you can't do with it.
Still didn't find a native FORTRAN compiler for
modern Linux though ...

 
gfortran ???
 

i used fortran the other day - the first fortran I’ve written in decades.
It wasn’t much of a program, I just wanted to see how fortran evaluated
some function or other. It showed me how much I’d forgotten, but also how
much I remembered, like riding a bicycle.

--
Pete