> Behalf Of Brian Beesley
...
> 
> Well, why not post the "crude FORTRAN"? There is at least one reader of
> this
> list who wrote FORTRAN programs over 35 years ago... maybe rusty but
> should
> be able to pick the bones out of even the messiest stew.
> 
> Regards
> Brian Beesley

FORTRAN?  Brian you young people don't know how easy you have it.  When I
was young, Fortran had not even been invented yet.  We used the predecessor
language, which was called Befortran, along with Aramaic and Sanskrit.  And
we didn't have any of these fancy modern compilers either.  We had a manual
compiler.  You loaded your Befortran code into the top, cranked the handle
until it became hard to turn, or your arm fell off whichever came first,
then we would unscrew the top and there was your compiled code was inside.  

But you try to tell young people today how it was, and they don't believe
you.

spike





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