[Info-vax] [OT] Current students apparently can't read Fortran code...

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/13/2022 9:48 PM, Galen wrote:
> 
>> Fortran 66 was available for most of that period.
>>
>> Fortran IV is mostly the same as Fortran 66.
>>
>> And functions and subroutines was (per public sources - before
>> my time) added in Fortran II in 1958.
>>
>> So not quite as bad.
>>
>> Anything text sucked big time in Fortran IV/66 but climate
>> model should not be impacted by that.
> 
> It’s possible that, just as today, “seasoned” (I.e. older, perhaps set in
> their ways) programmers in the 1960’s and 1970’s may not have used
> new-dangled features like IF/THEN/ELSE or more modern loop constructs. And
> may actually have liked assigned or computed GOTOs, three-branch IF, etc.

Block if else was new in 77.

Arne