20 Mar
2018
20 Mar
'18
8:55 p.m.
Having worked on system programming for UNIX and a few of the PDP-11 DEC OS’s (DOS, RT,
RSX, and in passing RSTS), I can tell you Fortran was abhorrent.
Sure it was the only high-level language I had on the RT and RSX systems, but its
character handling was awful. I ended up writing almost all that stuff in assembler
(which fortunately the PDP-11 is wonderful for).