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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <hb4btk$cqf$2 at news.eternal-september.org>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
> On 2009-10-13, Bob Koehler <koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org> wrote:
>>
>>    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 ?

   From the late 1950s, when FORTRAN was invented and became popular, 
   through the middle 1980s, when C became all the rage.