...of small manuals "PL/I for FORTRAN programmers", and "PL/I for ..." that introduce the language as FORTRAN-like or COBOL-like. IBM ... COBOL to PL/I conversion programs. I believe at one time ...to PL/I, and avoid writing Fortran and COBOL compilers. That obviously ... least compared to Fortran 66 (or FortranIV) it should be ... of the strange restrictions of Fortran, especially on DO loops and ...
John Ahlstrom wrote: (snip) Wasn't Fortran/H for 360 written in FortranIV for 7090 and then bootstrapped? Or was that the 3rd party Fortran IBM bought when Fortran/H was ...? Fortran H is about half written in Fortran and half assembly. I know that 7090's... seem to have a lot of ASSIGNed GOTOs. Fortran G is the 3rd party implementation. It is written in some ...
... language is the easiest to write Fortran in. . In order to avoid ... to "what language, other than Fortran, is the easiest...", which spoils the...a totally irrelevant one, note that Fortran II is certainly _a_ difficult language in which to write Fortran 2003.) Especially if you have .../H for 360 written in FortranIV for 7090 and then bootstrapped? Or was that the 3rd ...
....ab.ca> wrote: glen herrmannsfeldt wrote: It seems to be OS/360 FortranIV, except for the local modification to allow list directed I/O. OS/360 Fortran (and I believe successor compilers from IBM) ... I believe I had it running on FORTRANIV (level G). The calls for device ... Michigan Terminal System. John Savard Was MTS Fortran the same as the IBM Fortran of ...
... herrmannsfeldt wrote: It seems to be OS/360 FortranIV, except for the local modification to allow list directed I/O. OS/360 Fortran (and I believe successor compilers from IBM) allow $ as...interesting is the message for missing END DO. I believe I had it running on FORTRANIV (level G). The calls for device information, and the calls for plotting, are local ...
Richard Maine wrote: (snip) doing assigned GOTO in a way that ... integer variable used for an assigned goto had two separate copies ... GOTO only works within one program unit, which is unlikely to ... statement. In the program/compiler under discussion, though, ASSIGN and the... seems to be OS/360 FortranIV, except for the local...directed I/O. OS/360 Fortran (and I believe successor compilers...
... was FORTRANIV, and it certainly did have subroutine calls. The program has control flows which don't correspond well to the structured programming paradigm - they couldn't even be ...'draw the graticule' part of the program. The other stuff can be fixed.... I'm using one of my assigned GOTOs to do that job. .... My most favorite style of programming was to have a table that...
...aol.com wrote: HUH? When you have FORTRAN II, you can't use FORTRAN-77...had was FORTRANIV, and it certainly did have subroutine calls. The program has control flows which don't correspond well to the structured programming paradigm - they couldn't even be made...'draw the graticule' part of the program. The other stuff can be fixed.... I'm using one of my assigned GOTOs to do that job. Why...
..., then: D.E. Knuth, "Structured Programming with the GOTO Statement," Computing Surveys...almost always what one needs - most programs followed Donald Knuth's advice even before he wrote it! My FORTRANIV example was one of the...title and contents. It was "Structured Programming with the COMEFROM Statement". I had... Contribution to GO TO-less Programming" which _did_ appear in an April...
... "publication language" (this distinction being the reason people don't need to type in Pascal programs using boldface for the keywords, and italic for the variables, using normal type only for ... its own character set (necessary in SIXBIT times), and there were also Chinese implementations: saw a program published as a puzzle in one of the trade weeklies. -- Thanks. Take care, Brian ...
