21 Sep
2015
21 Sep
'15
1:37 p.m.
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From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Chuck
Guzis
Sent: 21 September 2015 20:29
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Subject: Re: Self modifying code, lambda calculus - Re: ENIAC programming
On 09/21/2015 12:18 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
I wrote X.25 software in Fortran:-(. We had some machine specific routines
to allow the Fortran code to wait for a packet to arrive.
There was also a huge vector of strings with matching integer arrays that
allowed them to be chained together, and to have types allocated to them
There were also a large number of "INCLUDE" files with a parameters which
defined the structure of data stored in the character vectors....
Dave
A REAL programmer can write a FORTRAN program in
any language.
Conversely, several languages were initially written in FORTRAN--it was
among the most portable in the early days. Remember those programs
that started out with a statement something like this?
C FIRST, GET THE CHARACTER SET
DIMENSION IALPHA(80)
READ 100,IALPHA
100 FORMAT (80A1)
Not everyone spoke USASCII or EBCDIC back in the day--and character
constants weren't part of most FORTRANs.
--Chuck