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

[P. Sture]

In article <l5$YfPe58bj7 at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
 koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) wrote:

> 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.

I started with computers in 1977. RPG II was the development language, 
with COBOL for the payroll (bought in) package.

Next step was with PDP's (Hurrah!) using DIBOL (Digital Business 
Oriented Langauge). DIBOL was essentially a mix of COBOL and FORTRAN, 
and a very productive tool.

-- 
Paul Sture