Yes, the competition wasn’t very strong. You may think Fortran’s I/O was bad, but at least it had I/O, unlike Algol 60 (the standard didn’t define I/O, so every

Yes, the competition wasn’t very strong. You may think Fortran’s I/O was bad, but at least it had I/O, unlike Algol 60 (the standard didn’t define I/O, so every compiler invented its own way of doing I/O)