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colechristensen on April 6, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: The State of Fortran

It is entirely possible this person is telling the truth that this was the state of things the last time they checked. :)

Fortran was absolutely run on punch cards, which also informs some of the strangeness of its formatting, especially pre-fortran-90.

ratsmack on April 6, 2022 [–]

I programmed FORTRAN on punch cards and on paper tape using a teletype, over an acoustically coupled modem, timesharing to a Univac 1103. Those were the days.

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