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Fortran 66 was the pinnacle as a no-nonsense practical programming language. No semicolon cancer, no fancy brackets, just code that looks like code. Beautiful (
by Koshkin 4y ago
Fortran 66 was the pinnacle as a no-nonsense practical programming language. No semicolon cancer, no fancy brackets, just code that looks like code. Beautiful (in a nerdy kind of way, by today’s standards).
- AdieuToLogic 4y ago> Fortran 66 was the pinnacle as a no-nonsense practical programming language. You got me by a major release. My introduction to Fortran was Fortran 77 on an antiquated IBM mainframe (event at that time). Loved it, even if I could never remember what column I needed to use :-).
- msla 4y agoA Real Programmer can write FORTRAN IV code in any language.
- ratboy666 4y agoThe pinnacle... huh. What about assigned goto? hollerith?equivalence? Please look at the following: C THE CALLEE SUBROUTINE X(I) GO TO I END C THE CALLER ASSIGN 10 TO J CALL X(J) C THIS IS NEVER REACHED STOP 10 WRITE(3,100) 100 FORMAT(8H THIS IS) END Why would this work? Because recursive calls are not allowed, There should NOT be a stack. So allow rather arbitrary jumped around (setjmp/longjmp) is um... ok?!? And what happens if a normal integer is passed to that code? (and it is separately compiled). Yikes.
- Koshkin 4y agoOr, with proper formatting: C THE CALLEE SUBROUTINE X(I) GO TO I END C THE CALLER ASSIGN 10 TO J CALL X(J) C THIS IS NEVER REACHED STOP 10 WRITE(3,100) 100 FORMAT(8H THIS IS) END