Scott Silva wrote: > on 10-24-2008 11:19 AM Ed Westphal spake the following: > >> MHR wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Bill Campbell >>> <centos at celestial.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Programming to the lowest common denominator may not feel sexy, >>>> but it can prevent many headaches in the future. I spent quite a >>>> bit of time many years ago getting a large FORTRAN system working >>>> that had been written on a system that use 7 character variable >>>> names where standard FORTRAN only permitted 6 (it was amazing how >>>> many of the variable names differed only in the 7th character). >>>> While this would be relatively easy to deal with today, it was a >>>> bitch when all programs were on 80-column punch cards. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Okay, now you're officially old. >>> >>> (Like me.) >>> >>> mhr >>> >>> >> Forgive my senility, but I'm continually amazed how many of us ole >> fossils are still around, and running Linux! Not to use up too much >> bandwidth, but the switch from Fortran 2 to 2D, for disk, was a big >> event way back when. Then Fortran 4 came around! Be still my old heart! >> >> ENW >> > When I learned Fortran IV in 1980 my teacher said that Fortran and Cobol were > the languages of the future! > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > I have been learning and using COBOL since the mid 80's. I use COBOL at the present time for Web Programming also. The COBOL we use runs on UNIX and Linux. I use it in addition to PHP/MySQL for Web Programming. I have looked at Fortran programs but never had to learn the language. It is on a PDP 11 that we shutdown in the late 90's.