> -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Chuck > Guzis > Sent: 21 September 2015 20:29 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > Subject: Re: Self modifying code, lambda calculus - Re: ENIAC programming > > On 09/21/2015 12:18 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: > > > A REAL programmer can write a FORTRAN program in any language. > > Conversely, several languages were initially written in FORTRAN--it was > among the most portable in the early days. Remember those programs > that started out with a statement something like this? > > > C FIRST, GET THE CHARACTER SET > > DIMENSION IALPHA(80) > > READ 100,IALPHA > 100 FORMAT (80A1) > > Not everyone spoke USASCII or EBCDIC back in the day--and character > constants weren't part of most FORTRANs. > > --Chuck
I wrote X.25 software in Fortran:-(. We had some machine specific routines to allow the Fortran code to wait for a packet to arrive. There was also a huge vector of strings with matching integer arrays that allowed them to be chained together, and to have types allocated to them There were also a large number of "INCLUDE" files with a parameters which defined the structure of data stored in the character vectors.... Dave
