From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: nobozo@gmail.com (Jon Forrest) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 10:32:57 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] FORTRAN In-Reply-To: <61051ebbca4809c08b60e92014851069e83a07f8@webmail.yaccman.com> References: <61051ebbca4809c08b60e92014851069e83a07f8@webmail.yaccman.com> Message-ID: In roughly 1977 I was trying to use the 'fc' Fortran compiler that came with Version 6 Unix at UC Santa Barbara. I needed to do some binary I/O to read digitized speech data. That compiler was very limited so I did what anybody would do back then - I called Dennis Ritchie, who had written 'fc', to ask him what to do. I remember he was surprisingly gracious but I don't remember what he said to do. Version 7 Unix came to UCSB soon afterwards and I started using it. It was easy to call C routines from it, which I did for a number of low level purposes. However, I soon discovered some 'f77' bugs. Fortunately Stu Feldman was visiting UCSB so I was able to demonstrate the bugs to him personally. Again, I don't remember what came of this but the Unix world was so small back then that it was common to be able to communicate with many of the key developers. Jon Forrest