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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <paul.nospam-DE86B9.22512614102009 at pbook.sture.ch>, "P. Sture" <paul.nospam at sture.ch> writes:
> 
> 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.

   There were always exceptions.  In 1977 I was still doing FORTRAN-IV
   (aka Fortran-66) on my first PDP-10.   COBOL, DIBOL, ... you don't
   do physics with those.