HOLY CRAP!!! First post from Darren that I've seen in years!!!! Maybe I missed a few. Hi Darren!
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Dave Jousma AVP | Manager, Systems Engineering Fifth Third Bank | 1830 East Paris Ave, SE | MD RSCB2H | Grand Rapids, MI 49546 616.653.8429 | fax: 616.653.2717 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Evans-Young, Darren Sent: Monday, June 8, 2020 10:16 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: COBOL Question **CAUTION EXTERNAL EMAIL** **DO NOT open attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails** FORTRAN 90 was a significant upgrade over previous standards. Mainly, free-form input source statements. Also, increase the length of identifiers from 6 characters to 31 characters, and upper/lowecase keywords/identifiers. The latest standard is Fortran 2018. I still teach Fortran to my Honor students. It's easy to learn for a first programming language, very forgiving, and you can do a lot with it. I still get flack from uninformed individuals, you know, the ones that say no one uses mainframes anymore, no one uses Fortran anymore, no on uses COBOL anymore. Every year, a couple of my students email me back to say how having Fortran experience on their resume helped them land a job or internship; companies like NASA, NOAA, Lockheed-Martin, etc. They are usually the only applicants out of hundreds that list Fortran experience. Darren This e-mail transmission contains information that is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended only for the addressee(s) named above. If you receive this e-mail in error, please do not read, copy or disseminate it in any manner. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. Please reply to the message immediately by informing the sender that the message was misdirected. After replying, please erase it from your computer system. Your assistance in correcting this error is appreciated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
