There are people trying to preserve significant old computer designs and operating systems in a form most likely to survive going forward such as simh. There are also people trying to preserve significant old programs in a form most likely to survive going forward. Being in a simh forum it isn't surprising to find more of the first type. There is room for everyone and it is all good.
> On Feb 3, 2018, at 5:05 AM, Bob Eager <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, 03 Feb 2018 00:37:25 -0500 > Phil Budne <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Last year Eric Raymond (The Cathedral And The Bazaar guy) and a few >>> others took the ugly machine translated C code from the last known >>> Fortran version and rewrote/structured it into something that is >>> much more readable and maintainable. >> >> To (apparently) quote the new version(*): "Well, that was remarkably >> pointless." >> >> To me, a GREAT part of the magic of the original game is that it makes >> a silk purse using a sow's ear (and my first two paying programming >> jobs were using FORTRAN, and then working on a FORTRAN compiler)! >> >> I recall thinking the tables (back before we called them data >> structures) were a thing of beauty when I first saw them. >> >> (*) http://www.catb.org/~esr/open-adventure/notes.html > > I agree about the silk purse comment. > > I have a copy of 'ed' in FORTRAN; it was very useful sometimes. > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
