[Info-vax] FORTRAN use, was: Re: Whither VMS?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2009-10-09, Bob Eager <rde42 at spamcop.net> wrote:
>
> I was always amazed at the amount of stuff written in FORTRAN. I used 
> something for monitoring users' terminals, and that was in FORTRAN.
>

:-)

I think the use of FORTRAN, regardless of platform, must have been a
custom/tradition at one time.

[My first system watchdog type program, which I wrote when I was about
16, was written in Fortran IV. (This was the early 1980's).]

Simon.

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