14 Oct
2013
14 Oct
'13
3:37 p.m.
On 10/14/2013 02:32 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
Sorry to have to say that the CDC one has indeed now
gone to a new
home. The IBM SSP one remains, though, so Dave, I suggest you drop me
an email with your address & I'll get a price for postage for you.
I'm a bit curious...
What on earth would a FTN (that's what CDC called the extended FORTRAN;
"standard" was RUN) manual be of use to someone today? It's not part
of the Cray-Cyber public access setup (it came later than COS). FTN is
a horribly non-standard dialect of FORTRAN. The EUQIVALENCE/COMMON
processor in the compiler is a nightmare in comment-free ASSIGN-ed
GOTOs. "The rule was "Don't touch it--you'll break it."
--Chuck