21 Sep
2015
21 Sep
'15
11:37 p.m.
If you wanted portability then Fortran or Cobol were pretty much all you
had. Whilst there may have been C compilers you probably didn't have one,
certainly in the world of commerce. Which is why our X.25 code was in
Fortran..
On Sep 22, 2015 1:41 AM, "Toby Thain" <toby at telegraphics.com.au>
wrote:
On 2015-09-21 5:58 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
Almost bearable in Ratfor/WATFOR/WATFIV though. Ref: "Elements of
Programming Style."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratfor
--Toby
paul
>
On Sep 21, 2015, at 5:33 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
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...
On 09/21/2015 01:37 PM, Dave G4UGM wrote:
I wrote X.25 software in Fortran:-(. We had some machine specific
Really? I find it hard to imagine that Wirth would use Fortran for a
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.