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[William Ray Wing]

> On Jan 4, 2019, at 11:34 AM, Avi Gross <avigross at verizon.net> wrote:
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> As I joked in an earlier message, I remember using a version of FORTRAN called WATFOR. Yes, there was a WATFIV. 
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Yah - WATFOR was Waterloo FORTRAN, an interpreted FORTRAN that was used a lot in intro classes.  No matter what the student did (negative indexes in early FORTRAN would get you down into the OS), under WATFOR the mainframe (yup) wouldn’t crash.

Bill

PS:  I, for one will drop this now as it is getting further off topic.