Happy Birthday, FORTRAN

**PAH** · 14 March 2008, 16:36

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

**RSoles** · 14 March 2008, 17:44

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

**xoggoth** · 14 March 2008, 20:50

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!

**xoggoth** · 14 March 2008, 20:54

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!

**TravelMonkey** · 14 March 2008, 22:09

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

**thunderlizard** · 14 March 2008, 22:20

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

**Diver** · 14 March 2008, 23:23

Long live Fortran

Happy Birthday, FORTRAN