Valtrep might have been the predecessor of fortran but probably not

it wasn't a claim. it was a question. it was what I was told (at the time) by the university. the language and structure is very suggestive that it was a predecessor. I could find *ZERO* documentation or references anywhere on the net to either valtrep or the sentry 70 system it ran on. so, like an idiot, I thought why not ask all these smart people on this list for help, surely someone else must have worked with it, must have seen this stuff. surely some historical record exists of the language or at least the computers that ran it, certainly someone kind, and wise enough of these things could fill in the blanks, and advise. I still can't find any references, other than what has been posted to the list. so far it only goes back to the 70s, with no real historical evidence of even the company that made the computers that ran this stuff. could it be earlier? yes, could it be later, probably. again i refer to similar situations in etymology. but instead of kind words and help and guidance, I got trolls. that's not what this list is supposed to be about. or at least, so I thought... wrong again?

Actually, Fortran came from Valtrep I used to code on some old Sentry-70 systems in Valtrep back in the 80s yes, this was after fortran was already quite established. it's very like fortran - if you can write fortran, you can do valtrep. Interestingly perhaps, googling for valtrep is quite useless it seems...