From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: clemc at ccc.com (Clem Cole) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2019 07:38:58 -0500 Subject: [COFF] Happy birthday, John Backus! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Cool On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 1:11 AM Wesley Parish wrote: > Well, gfortran swallowed eklund.f without a complain and threw me out > an a.out, which ran as expected. > > I've got a Fortran IV manual lying around somewhere: I suppose life > not too short for a bit of gratuitous masochism? (I also had an old > Cobol manual of the same vintage, but I gave it to a friend who > believe it or not, wanted to learn it. Gratuitous masochism indeed. > Cobol! ;/ ) > > Thanks > > Wesley > > On 12/5/19, Clem Cole wrote: > > Wesley - one more thing. When you copy the original card deck, please > > remember that because it's fixed format so make sure you have the proper > > number of leading spaces after your cut/paste it (it did when I inserted > > into the email). If you drop any leading spaces or try to use a tab, > it's > > likely that the fixed format parser for continuation lines will get > > confused. > > > -- Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: