> FORTRAN was, and still is, widespread, even if it doesn't look > anything like itself these days.
On Sun, 19 Mar 2017, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
That's because, unlike the COBOL Professionals, the Fortran people drank from the OO KoolAid.
Yes, there does exist an Object Oriented COBOL!
Oh, and my 1401 only did Autocoder. I didn't start using Fortran until my Univac-1100 days.
There wasn't a Fortran compiler for the 1401, but how much did they charge for the FORTRAN compiler?
