In a tribute to John W Backus and his team of
IBM super programmers who developed the first
FORTRAN compiler from scratch in 1954-57,
how about trying for a JAPH consisting
only of valid FORTRAN 0 characters?
AN EXAMPLE FORTRAN 0 PROGRAM
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DIMENSION A(11)
READ A
2 DO 3,8,11 J=1,11
3 I=11-J
Y=SQRT(ABS(A(I+1)))+5*A(I+1)**3
IF (400>=Y) 8,4
4 PRINT I,999.
GOTO 2
8 PRINT I,Y
11 STOP
Unfortunately, I am not sure of the valid FORTRAN 0
character set, but I hope it does not allow lower
case characters since that is what makes the JAPH
interesting.
Andrew.
