Re: Re: COBOL for Beginners
By: poindexter FORTRAN to smartyhall on Thu Dec 05 2019 07:10 am
> I studied CS in the late '80s, and there was a plethora of free languages
> for DOS. I remember starting in Pascal and FORTRAN, then finding a LISP
> interpreter and Modula-2 compilers available. And, of course, tons of ANSI C
> compilers.
We did FORTRAN and COBOL in high school. Back in '80. We used this big epsidic (
sp) machine to type out our punch cards. Then we would put them in theis huge co
llator and run them through and then we would print out if what we did was succe
ssful.
It never failed when you had about 100 cards for a major project and the
machine sucks it up. Or you mistype that one letter.
Grease
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