21 Sep
2015
21 Sep
'15
2:58 p.m.
On Sep 21, 2015, at 5:33 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at
sydex.com> wrote:
On 09/21/2015 01:37 PM, Dave G4UGM wrote:
Really? I find it hard to imagine that Wirth would use Fortran for a compiler. Never
mind his background in structured languages -- writing a compiler in Fortran is just much
harder. Not as hard as writing one in COBOL, but still...
paul
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....
PASCAL was first implemented in FORTRAN.