Scott Silva wrote:
on 10-24-2008 11:19 AM Ed Westphal spake the following:
MHR wrote:
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Bill Campbell
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Programming to the lowest common denominator may not feel sexy,
but it can prevent many headaches in the future. I spent quite a
bit of time many years ago getting a large FORTRAN system working
that had been written on a system that use 7 character variable
names where standard FORTRAN only permitted 6 (it was amazing how
many of the variable names differed only in the 7th character).
While this would be relatively easy to deal with today, it was a
bitch when all programs were on 80-column punch cards.
Okay, now you're officially old.
(Like me.)
mhr
Forgive my senility, but I'm continually amazed how many of us ole
fossils are still around, and running Linux! Not to use up too much
bandwidth, but the switch from Fortran 2 to 2D, for disk, was a big
event way back when. Then Fortran 4 came around! Be still my old heart!
ENW
When I learned Fortran IV in 1980 my teacher said that Fortran and Cobol were
the languages of the future!
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I have been learning and using COBOL since the mid 80's.
I use COBOL at the present time for Web Programming also.
The COBOL we use runs on UNIX and Linux.
I use it in addition to PHP/MySQL for Web Programming.
I have looked at Fortran programs but never had to learn the language.
It is on a PDP 11 that we shutdown in the late 90's.
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