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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 4/14/22 08:28, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> 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.

 From my experience, the biggest problem with legacy Fortran was that
it was not written by programmers at all but by engineers who just
happened to have one course in Fortran and nothing else computer
related.

bill