Piece of classic FORTRAN code

From: ss_at_allegro.com <(ss_at_allegro.com)>
Date: Tue Feb 9 11:30:33 1999

Date sent: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 08:28:30 -0800
Subject: Re: Piece of classic FORTRAN code
From: ckaiser_at_oa.ptloma.edu
To: classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu
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> Hah. My father was a Fortran-II programmer. The extent of his error debug
> sessions was
>
> ERROR
>
> It took him all semester to do one program, and he was the first in his class.

Ah yes...the 60's technology extended into the early 80's on many
mainframes :)

Given your birth year, I'd guess your father was doing his
programming in 1970-1976 or so. In 1970 I was programming
FORTRAN during interactive sessions on a Burroughs B6700
running MCP (hierarchical file system, multi-programming, multi-
processing, virtual memory).

OTOH, in 1969 I took a FORTRAN class taught at a different school,
where we had to use a CDC 3600. In an entire semester, we never
got to "SUBROUTINE".

My point, if there is one, is that the IBMs and CDCs (and others) of
the world have a lot to be blamed for, along with things to be praised
for. :)
Received on Tue Feb 09 1999 - 11:30:33 GMT

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