Fortran : 1st program 1954, Sept 20

[Tomz_KV]

It seemed that the language was created before computer was invented.

TOMZ_KV

[theoldfool]

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>64 If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.

[OldGeezer]

If you run this on a CDC 6400 class machine it will print 2 which was both fun and educational :) PROGRAM ONETWO CALL ADDONE(1) PRINT*, 1 END SUBROUTINE ADDONE (NUMBER) NUMBER=NUMBER+1 RETURN END

[theoldfool]

At the risk of playing can you top this, IMB 1130, 1965, 8K memory. OOPS: IBM

>64 If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.

[OldGeezer]

If you run this on a CDC 6400 class machine it prints 2 which was both fun and educational :) PROGRAM ONETWO CALL ADDONE(1) PRINT*, 1 END SUBROUTINE ADDONE (NUMBER) NUMBER=NUMBER+1 RETURN END

[JSilvers]

Coded in FORTRAN (before numbered versions) in 1962, IBM 7090. Fortunately graduated to assembler for CDC 3600 by 1964 (for a COBOL compiler)

Joan F Silverston jsilverston@cox.net nhswinc.com

[Gary R Wheeler]

My first programming class in college (fall of 1979) used WATFIV on an IBM 370.

Software Zen: delete this;

[englebart]

Good old VMS. We rebooted only when we updated the OS. It would run for years. FORTRAN was the best language for that OS. The C compiler had lots of bugs.

[jsc42]

FORTRAN IV on WATFOR was my first high level language (if you exclude Honeywell Time Sharing Basic). I was still at school in 1974 and borrowed a textbook overnight and read it cover-to-cover. Then upset the teacher it belonged to by writing more complex programs than she could. (Coding sheets sent to the local county council for mispunching onto 80-char punch cards - turn-round time: 2 weeks)

[Chris Nic]

We had 026 and 029 card punches and we had to punch them ourselves. Submit them to the operators and get your printout then next day. If you knew somebody in there, later the same day.