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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2009-10-13, Bob Koehler <koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org> wrote:
> In article <haqahp$6rp$1 at news.eternal-september.org>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>> 
>> I think the use of FORTRAN, regardless of platform, must have been a
>> custom/tradition at one time.
>
>    IT was a customer requirement at one time.  Everything to be written
>    in Fortran, unless it absolutely can't be.  In that case, assembler
>    was OK.
>
>    Fortran was the mother lanuage, and the universal language.
>

Interesting, thanks. What range of years was this true for ?

Simon.

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