17 Mar
2018
17 Mar
'18
6:08 a.m.
On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, Dan Stromberg wrote:
FORTRAN isn't that bad. F77 had too much and too
little whitespace
significance, but from what I've heard, F90 is pretty decent.
Dunno; I taught myself FORTRAN-II after winning a book at school (yes,
really!), and somehow ploughed through WATFOR (urk!) and WATFIV (a bit
better) in my early CompSci classes, then was allowed to use FORTRAN-G in
later on.
And if we promised to behave ourselves i.e. debug the program on FORTRAN-G
first then we were allowed to use FORTRAN-H (which needed a special code
on the JOB card, as I recall).
Never used the abomination since...
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."