FORTRAN (was Re: indentation)

[John W. Baxter]

In article <82mjag$7oh$1 at nntp2.atl.mindspring.net>, aahz at netcom.com (Aahz
Maruch) wrote:

> In article <14411.53378.154350.793014 at weyr.cnri.reston.va.us>,
> Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> wrote:
> >Mark Jackson writes:
> >>
> >> And Fortran.  Don't forget Fortran.
> >
> >  I guess I got lucky; having never learned Fortran, I don't have to
> >forget it.  ;-)
> 
> Hmmm...  I wonder who the youngest person in this group is who has
> actually used FORTRAN on the job.  I'm 32; I did the work twelve years
> ago.
> --

I'm at the other end of the scale:  I only briefly used a FORTRAN version
with a number in the name:  the number was II.  Most of my FORTRAN was the
unnumbered sort (before FORTRAN II).

Source code for that (three-character identifiers) included in the comment
describing one of the two subroutines:

    MAN CALLS DOG TO ....

   --John (who once refereed a basketball game with Vannevar Bush as my partner)

-- 
John W. Baxter   Port Ludlow, WA USA  jwb at olympus.net