Happy Birthday, FORTRAN

[Diver]

Long live Fortran

[thunderlizard]

You mean Fortran was born on Pi day, like Einstein? How geeky is that?

[TravelMonkey]

Fortran an Algol coders online, are u those silver surfers i keep hearing about

[xoggoth]

PS BASIC must be pretty old too, I remember, erm, somebody telling me about submitting a BASIC program on punch cards at a Uni course in 1965. God , I HATE old people like that! Glad I'm not old!

[xoggoth]

I saw this header about FORTRAN and immediately knew it would be your post z, YOU GHASTLY OLD FART! I am glad I am not old like you.

Algol 77, punched cards, Elliot 405s, operating systems on paper tape. Mmmmmmmmmmmmm!

[RSoles]

And there's one small tweak somebody sneaked into the build before the compile started. It was late at night, in a rush to beat the build deadline and it was only a wee change so no need to test it.

It starts:-

DO 10 1.100

[PAH]

and we're still waiting for the compile to finish.....

[zeitghost]

50 years young...

It must be said that it was 50 years in 2007 by the way...


Incorrect, it's actually 51...

First compiler released in 1957...