19 Mar
2017
19 Mar
'17
9:36 a.m.
> FORTRAN was, and still is, widespread, even if it
doesn't look
> anything like itself these days.
On Sun, 19 Mar 2017, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
That's because, unlike the COBOL Professionals,
the Fortran people drank
from the OO KoolAid.
Yes, there does exist an Object Oriented COBOL!
Oh, and my 1401 only did Autocoder. I didn't
start using Fortran until
my Univac-1100 days.
There wasn't a Fortran compiler for the 1401, but
how much did they charge for the FORTRAN compiler?