...) during its whole lifetime. recent refs http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#36 Why these original FORTRAN quirks? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#7 Why these original FORTRAN quirks? The distribution overview also makes mention of including SPM from POK which is referenced here http://www.garlic.com...

Status report on project activities mentioned in email from 12dec73 in this post http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#36 Why these original FORTRAN quirks? involving porting various functions that had been implemented in cp67 with additional enhancements. shortly after this email was written, I enhanced the PAM filesystem support so for "small" files (with only a single data block) ...

Terence wrote: Restating original title. (again) Why these original FORTRAN quirks? Because they allowed FORTRAN to be complied without using recursion. Andrew Swallow

["Followup-To:" header set to alt.folklore.computers.] On 23 Nov 2006 13:48:18 -0800, Terence <tbwright@cantv.net> wrote: Restating original title. How about restating the original quirks, or any others (FORTRAN quirks) you want to know about? -- BOFH excuse #182: endothermal recalibration

re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#0 Why these original FORTRAN quirks? for total other link/loader drift ... playing with the (bps) loader table from the initialization of the cp/67 kernel. the additional changes mentioned in the email had been done by the time i had implemented "dumprx" (a vmfdump replacement) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#dumprx From: wheeler...

...#22 Why these original FORTRAN quirks? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/...#26 Why these original FORTRAN quirks? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/...46 Why these original FORTRAN quirks? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn...54 Why these original FORTRAN quirks? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn...10 Why these original FORTRAN quirks? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn...28 Why these original FORTRAN quirks? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn...

... posts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#54 Why these original FORTRAN quirks? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#60 Why these original FORTRAN quirks? but also modifying existing application code that made used of internal working storage. ...a swallow (was: Real core) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006t.html#39 Why these original FORTRAN quirks?

... relocable address constants http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006t.html#30 Why these original FORTRAN quirks? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006t.html#39 Why these original FORTRAN quirks? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#1 Why these original FORTRAN quirks? the issue in the os/360 paradigm (which has been carried on thru today)...

... code. Then my redlining was useful in reminding the programmer he forgot to write a whole routine. At DEC's Tape Prep, as you got more experienced and learned about each programmer and his quirks, you could figure out lots of stuff and corrections. The style of redlining would morph into become a perfect partner of each programmer. The same thing was true with our writers. We would ...

...believe that they could be a little longer than variable names, though. I dislike arbitrary limits in general. This includes arbitrary limits on identifier length. However, the freedom to do something doesn't mean that it is compulsory to do it all the time. --brian -- Wellington, New Zealand "What's life? Life's easy. A quirk of matter. Nature's way of keeping meat fresh."