Re: Windows XP home Edition
  By: Roger Scudder to Bill Birrell on Tue Oct 14 2003 05:20 pm

 > 
 > On: 14 Oct 03  00:32:00 Bill Birrell wrote to Vince Coen:
 > 
 >  > Fortransoft, and I still use their Fortran 77. It still works perfectly
 > satisfactorily.
 > 
 >  I have no exposure to Fortran.  The only thing I know about it is that it i
 > an old engineering language.  What sort of programs to you write in Fortran?
 > 
 > -Roger
 
ForTran is the high level language version of the IBM 360 Assembly language
(BAL for Basic Assembly Language? I forget what the Assembler is called).  It
copied all of the IBM data structures right down to the Hollerith declarations
for declaring string constants that conform to the Hollerith tabulation machine
census data.  ForTran is to IBM Assembler what C is to DEC Assembler Macro-11.
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