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From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] History of m6?
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2019 16:30:15 +1100 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1911171625260.408@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACytpF_OQwG5d_qUWaz5554T0z2_iP=EvxZWvPHJ4q-89Yj0oA@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, 16 Nov 2019, SPC wrote:

> My first FORTRAN textbook was titled "FORTRAN with WATFOR and WATFIV". 
> It had a long print run as well.

Now *that* brings back memories (not necessarily pleasant).  WATFOR was as 
ugly as sin, but WATFIV was much better i.e. it actually knew about stuff 
such as labelled common etc (I could be wrong here).

And I still feel like taking a shower after discussing FORTRAN :-)

Then we got ALGOLW, and it was heavenly.  PL/360 had a good run too.

-- Dave

  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-17  5:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-11 21:10 Arnold Robbins
2019-11-11 22:18 ` Dennis Boone
2019-11-12 16:01   ` Leah Neukirchen
2019-11-11 22:31 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-11-11 22:58   ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-12  0:07     ` Nemo Nusquam
2019-11-12  0:39       ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-12  0:30   ` Clem cole
2019-11-16 16:27     ` SPC
2019-11-17  5:30       ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2019-11-17  5:50         ` Larry McVoy
2019-11-17 18:12           ` Bakul Shah
2019-11-17 18:23             ` Michael Kjörling
2019-11-17 18:56               ` Bakul Shah
2019-11-17 22:46             ` Barry Stanly
2019-11-12  0:42   ` Dennis Boone
2019-11-11 22:37 ` Michael Kjörling
2019-11-12  1:09 ` Steve Johnson
2019-11-12 15:07   ` Clem Cole
2019-11-13  9:16     ` Thomas Paulsen
2019-11-13 12:20       ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-11-13 12:50         ` Mike Markowski
2019-11-13 13:02           ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-11-13 16:56         ` Paul Winalski
2019-11-13 19:19           ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-11-13 19:21             ` Jon Steinhart
2019-11-14  9:26         ` Thomas Paulsen
2019-11-14 10:53           ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-11-13 21:26       ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-13 22:53       ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2019-11-12 15:15 Doug McIlroy
2019-11-13  7:38 ` arnold
2019-11-13 10:55   ` David Arnold

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