FORTRAN (was Re: indentation)

James Logajan JamesL at Lugoj.Com
Fri Dec 10 00:44:08 EST 1999


"John W. Baxter" wrote:
> I'm at the other end of the scale:  I only briefly used a FORTRAN version
> with a number in the name:  the number was II.  Most of my FORTRAN was the
> unnumbered sort (before FORTRAN II).
> 
> Source code for that (three-character identifiers) included in the comment
> describing one of the two subroutines:
> 
>     MAN CALLS DOG TO ....
> 
>    --John (who once refereed a basketball game with Vannevar Bush as my partner)
> 
> --
> John W. Baxter   Port Ludlow, WA USA  jwb at olympus.net

Wow! THE Vannevar Bush? Speaking only for myself, I am duly impressed by
your name-dropping. And yes, I do know who he is and I'm not kidding about
being impressed.

Jim (who once started to argue with Marvin Minsky without knowing who he
was)



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