From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2020 06:50:52 +1100 (EST) Subject: [COFF] How much Fortran? In-Reply-To: References: <20200203034729.GN3216@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: On Mon, 3 Feb 2020, Clem Cole wrote: > Frankly, I would have expected the folks at this(these) NASA > contractor(s) to have used assembler in those days under the guise of > "efficiency;" but Fortran-IV would definitely have been popular at many > contractors that would have been doing the work.  The article mentions > Fortran-V which I find interesting because I did not believe it was > really much of a thing (i.e. it was never standardized).  Basically, as > I understood it from my Fortran peeps at DEC/Intel, F-V was the Waterloo > extensions (a.k.a. WatFor) that got picked up by most people and in > particular, IBM added to the FORTRAN/G or H compiler for the S/360.  DEC > had gone in a different direction still with VMS FORTRAN, although I > believe they had picked up the things like WRITE(*) from Waterloo.   And WATFIV as well, as I recall from my student days; it was closer to FORTRAN than WATFOR was (both were "student" compilers e.g. better error messages but not the best of generated code). -- Dave