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

Craig A. Berry craigberry at nospam.mac.com
Thu Apr 14 08:28:11 EDT 2022


On 4/13/22 9:16 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 4/13/2022 9:27 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>>
>> On 4/13/22 6:54 PM, Bob Gezelter wrote:

>>> FORTRAN II (IBM 1620, circa 1960, 20K digits of storage) had full 
>>> subroutines and functions.
>>
>> OK.  I read the Wikipedia article wrong, specifically with regard to
>> functions and subroutines.  The fact they had them doesn't mean they
>> were used.
> 
> I am pretty sure that they were a hit.

I'm 100% sure that the code I had to read didn't have them.



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