Self modifying code, lambda calculus - Re: ENIAC programming

[Chuck Guzis]

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