27 Mar
2007
27 Mar
'07
12:59 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
I rather liked Basic FORTRAN IV (that's what it
was called). A
minimal functional subset; no logical IFs, ASSIGNed GOTOs, object-
time FORMAT or named COMMON. Just a handful of statements that you
could pretty much compile and run anywhere.
I rather liked full blown FORTRAN IV. I have been looking at
the PDP8 Fortran IV version and all things considered that was
a powerful machine for its price range in the 1970's.
All this talk of Fortran 77, 90 make fortran a more modern
langage but it seems to me they lost something in that the old
programs have to be re-written since they don't support things
like sence switches for example.
Cheers,
Chuck