Structured Fortran - was Re: Self modifying code, lambda calculus

[Jon Elson]

On 09/22/2015 03:35 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
>> On Sep 22, 2015, at 4:22 PM, Diane Bruce <db at db.net> wrote:
>>
>>> ...
>>>> But back in the 60's, every manufacturer had its own variety of FORTRAN,
>>>> including (IIRC), UNIVAC's own "FORTRAN V".
>>> Ah, yes.  I remember WatFor
>> And Unix was no different, 'C' started out as a Fortran compiler.
> Really?  "citation needed".
>
I also find this hard to believe.  C is a very different 
language structure than FORTRAN.
I checked out a Bell Unix distro on the PDP-11 and the 
FORTRAN compiler that came with it.
it had several big errors in implementing the standard 
FORTRAN language, and also printing out floating point 
numbers was laughably slow.  We decided to go with RSX-11M 
instead.  That experience put me off Unix-derived systems 
for years.  it made me think that that version of FORTRAN 
was not likely to have ever been used very much.

Jon