[Info-vax] Fortran

[Bob Koehler]

In article <pu5uc4$n43$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
> On 2018-12-03, Galen <gltackett at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Probably a GE die-hards still using the three-branch IF as well? ;-)
> 
> I really hope there's no-one bemoaning the demise of Hollerith constants. :-)

   The 300,000 lines of code I talked about originally had character
   strings initialized by coding the hex values of EBCDIC characters.
   Odd, since every compiler we had access to, and some of the oldest
   code in the system, accepted quoted strings.  Not particularly
   portable, either.