17 Nov
2019
17 Nov
'19
11:30 a.m.
On Sat, 16 Nov 2019, SPC wrote:
My first FORTRAN textbook was titled "FORTRAN
with WATFOR and WATFIV".
It had a long print run as well.
Now *that* brings back memories (not necessarily pleasant). WATFOR was as
ugly as sin, but WATFIV was much better i.e. it actually knew about stuff
such as labelled common etc (I could be wrong here).
And I still feel like taking a shower after discussing FORTRAN :-)
Then we got ALGOLW, and it was heavenly. PL/360 had a good run too.
-- Dave