Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: SeekAndFind

Whatever happened to Fortran I used in 1969?


30 posted on 04/17/2017 12:03:13 PM PDT by Renegade
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: Renegade
Whatever happened to Fortran I used in 1969?

Fortran was a static language, and the benefits of dynamic programming made it obsolete. For the longest time, if a computer company wanted to sell to the Feds, it had to have a Fortran compiler. And since the Federal Gub'mint was the largest purchaser at the time...

In school, Fortran dominated, but the last two years were mostly the highly structured Pascal. Period.

48 posted on 04/17/2017 1:02:07 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies ]

To: Renegade; Calvin Locke; UB355; CARTOUCHE; Prince Caspian; The Great RJ; AdmSmith

FORTRAN was, is and always be the standard for computational programming, and here is a great FORTRAN-15 video that proves just that...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gp5YJfinOA


62 posted on 04/17/2017 5:29:02 PM PDT by Chode (My job is not to represent the world. My job is to represent the United States of America-#45 DJT)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson