5 Apr
2025
5 Apr
'25
4:03 p.m.
On 4/4/2025 11:15 PM, ben via cctalk wrote:
On 2025-04-04 8:37 p.m., Michael Huff via cctalk
wrote:
I never thought of Fortran of being portable by design. It may
be fairly portable just because of the simplicity of the language.
I'll let you know, I am about to try moving a program that ran on
TOPS-10 and IBM MTS to Microsoft Fortran-80. :-)
The truly portable language was COBOL. :-)
bill
I've played with using ChatGPT to write code
for older things
(quickbasic,
1990's C++, stuff like that). In my experience it gets confused and gives
you snippets that has features from later, modern languages. I'm far from
an expert but it feels to me like it gets confused during processing
about
what to use as a source when giving it's answer.
So based on that, I'd say that the training wouldn't help a whole lot.
I thought FORTRAN IV was the portable programing language.
They have talked about having smarter high level programing languages
for years. Has that gotten anywhere?