7 May
2010
7 May
'10
1:10 p.m.
On Fri, 7 May 2010, Dan Gahlinger wrote:
Actually, Fortran came from Valtrep
WOW!
Are you saying that Apple contracted with Valtrep for their Lisa FORTRAN?
Or are you saying that the earliest versions of FORTRAN were based on
Valtrep? If so, you should be aware that FORTRAN was in heavy active use
in the 1960s, rather long before your 1980s experiences with Valtrep.
NO. Valtrep may have made some nice improvements, but they were never
part of the original creation of FORTRAN.
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.
Yes, RATHER.
FORTRAN was well on to its DECLINE in usage by then.
it's very like fortran - if you can write fortran,
you can do valtrep.
Interestingly perhaps, googling for valtrep is quite useless it seems...
Oh, I don't know, that guy "transnet" has some interesting ideas :-)