It was my first programming class at the U of I. Fortran using punch
cards on an IBM mainframe system. Each student was alloted so many
minutes of processor time and if you went over that limit, you failed
the course. One infinite loop and you are "out of here". Many a night
spent in the digital computer lab at the key punch machines, then carry
your card stack to the reader, and wait for your printout. What fun......
Ben Story wrote:
They had it in the course catalog, but only offered it every 4 years
and only for Physics and Chemistry majors.
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 2:02 PM, JimHays <hay...@sages.us
<mailto:hay...@sages.us>> wrote:
Show of hands. How many took a college class in Fortran???????
(My hand it up.....)
Williams, Scott wrote:
******Ouput for Happy Birthday Fortran
WRITE(6,*)'Happy Birthday Fortran'
STOP
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Today in 1956, first Fortran Manual published
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