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BASIC was largely a simplified, interactive FORTRAN. Fortran is still used today, as it has a large software base of computation kernels and also lends itself
by musicale 3y ago
BASIC was largely a simplified, interactive FORTRAN.
Fortran is still used today, as it has a large software base of computation kernels and also lends itself to efficient compilation.
- rbanffy 3y agoIt is relatively easy to port Fortran 77 code to BASIC. I did that in college to run “FORTRAN code” on my Casio BASIC “calculator”.
- musicale 3y agoThat's amazing. Of course the Casio might have been more powerful than the original machines that FORTRAN was designed to run on (IBM 704 etc.) Also: no punched cards.