Interesting new programming language
Interesting new programming language
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One of my colleagues stumbled across this yesterday. A real blast from the past. Or is it?
http://www.fortran.com/FortranForTheIBM704.pdf
http://www.fortran.com/FortranForTheIBM704.pdf
- Steve






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That's why they invented BASIC - much easier - but not as fast.
Fortran is still used for very high speed calcs on large computers - think NASA or NOAA
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That's pretty much all I remember of the class, other than an absymal attempt to code a square root routine in assembler.
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John R. Baker, P.E.
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I was still using card punches at my first job as an APT NC programmer for Corning Glass in their machine shop making molds for the glass products. Wasn't until early 1981 that we finally got terminals to use for RJE input.
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It wasn't until I was presented with hunks of (expensive) rotting legacy FORTRAN that I needed to learn the language properly so that I could write user subroutines.
I find the FORTRAN die-hards an amusing bunch. I guess the existence of and reliance upon BLAS & LAPACK will guaratee their survival.
- Steve