21 Sep
2015
21 Sep
'15
12:28 p.m.
On 09/21/2015 12:18 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
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