Archivists are uploading hundreds of random VHS tapes to the internet

Re:Archivists are uploading hundreds of random VHS tapes to ... by dmix on Friday February 28, 2020 @06:03PM (#22447233)

Fortran always seems like such an odd looking language to a modern developer like myself, who's learned a fair share of languages.

I want to sit down and figure it out one day given how prominent it was (and still is for many critical systems).

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Re:Archivists are uploading hundreds of random VHS tapes to ... by WalterBright on Friday February 28, 2020 @06:09PM (#22447269)

The Fortran I used for Empire was FORTRAN-10, a DEC variant with many extensions to the then-Standard FORTRAN IV.

There was an earlier Empire I wrote in BASIC, but alas it was lost. Some of its vestiges remain in the Fortran version, such as a variable named Z6. (Variables in that BASIC were one letter and one digit.)

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Re:Archivists are uploading hundreds of random VHS tapes to ... by dmix on Friday February 28, 2020 @06:29PM (#22447395)

What do you program in today?

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Re:Archivists are uploading hundreds of random VHS tapes to ... by bachmeier on Friday February 28, 2020 @06:31PM (#22447411)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bright

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Re:Archivists are uploading hundreds of random VHS tapes to ... by dmix on Friday February 28, 2020 @06:53PM (#22447534)

Well, that certainly answered my question! Thanks for the heads up.

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