On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 01:07:14PM -0700, Fred Cisin wrote: > On Tue, 22 Sep 2015, Chuck Guzis wrote: > > what an F77 programmer might recognize as FORTRAN. > > Wouldn't an F77 programmer be looking for Fortran, not FORTRAN? > > > But back in the 60's, every manufacturer had its own variety of FORTRAN, > > including (IIRC), UNIVAC's own "FORTRAN V". > Ah, yes. I remember WatFor
And Unix was no different, 'C' started out as a Fortran compiler. > > > > FORTRAN II in general was a free-for-all, varying between > > machines from the same manufacturer. > > I hadn't been using FORTRAN long when I was thrown into PDQ FORTRAN. > > > > -- - d...@freebsd.org d...@db.net http://www.db.net/~db