> On Sep 21, 2015, at 5:33 PM, Chuck Guzis <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 09/21/2015 01:37 PM, Dave G4UGM wrote:
>
>> I wrote X.25 software in Fortran:-(. We had some machine specific
>> routines to allow the Fortran code to wait for a packet to arrive.
>> There was also a huge vector of strings with matching integer arrays
>> that allowed them to be chained together, and to have types allocated
>> to them There were also a large number of "INCLUDE" files with a
>> parameters which defined the structure of data stored in the
>> character vectors....
>
> PASCAL was first implemented in FORTRAN.
Really? I find it hard to imagine that Wirth would use Fortran for a compiler.
Never mind his background in structured languages -- writing a compiler in
Fortran is just much harder. Not as hard as writing one in COBOL, but still...
paul
