On Fri, 7 May 2010, Chuck Guzis wrote:
I wonder if VECTRAN isn't older than Valtrep.
Fortran with array extensions? I can't compare its age with Valtrep
(there seems to be only one person who can discuss Valtrep), but VECTRAN
was based on FORTRAN, in the 1970s?.
Or is Vectran the fancy fiber that was invented at Roswell NM?
Was Valtrep classified? Maybe black helicopters came and retrieved all
but one of all of the people who had ever heard of it.
Of course the discrepancies in the space-time continuum might not be
atributable to Dan. Dan may have been misled. I also once had a boss who
insisted that the company's technology predated the invention of fire.
I think that Dan needs to correct the omissions in the histories of
programming languages at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_programming_languages
and the FORTRAN article in the most authoritative of all references:
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/FORTRAN
But, not to worry.
A REAL programmer can write a FORTRAN program in any language.