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Posted by Shelly on 07/25/05 15:06
"Peter Chant" <pete@petezilla.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Steve wrote:
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>> Well, I know Fortran 2, 4 and 77 ( with blocked if statements at last! ),
>> but not 66.
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> I think 66 may be another name for IV. I've not used it, I learnt 77, but
> it is mentioned in one of my reference books.
Wow! There are people out there almost as old as me. I learned programming
on the job with Fortran 4. Take that stack of punched cards and submit it
in the morning. Hopefully you get it back by the end of the day just in
time to make the corrections and submit it overnight for the next morning to
fix early and repeat again. We had TWO IBM 7094s hooked together for an
amazing 64K memory!
There were no blocked ifs so you HAD to write spaghetti code. After the
intro of Fortran 77, with the exception of (ugh!) Basic, I think I wrote a
grand total of 5 gotos over the next almost three decades.
Shelly
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