If you wanted portability then Fortran or Cobol were pretty much all you had. Whilst there may have been C compilers you probably didn't have one, certainly in the world of commerce. Which is why our X.25 code was in Fortran.. On Sep 22, 2015 1:41 AM, "Toby Thain" <t...@telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
> On 2015-09-21 5:58 PM, Paul Koning wrote: > >> >> On Sep 21, 2015, at 5:33 PM, Chuck Guzis <ccl...@sydex.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 09/21/2015 01:37 PM, Dave G4UGM wrote: >>> >>> 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.... >>>> >>> >>> PASCAL was first implemented in FORTRAN. >>> >> >> Really? I find it hard to imagine that Wirth would use Fortran for a >> > compiler. Never mind his background in structured languages -- writing a > compiler in Fortran is just much harder. Not as hard as writing one in > COBOL, but still... > >> >> > Almost bearable in Ratfor/WATFOR/WATFIV though. Ref: "Elements of > Programming Style." > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratfor > > --Toby > > paul >> >> >> >