Re: [MLUG] help with ancient FORTRAN?

["David G. McBride" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 15:57, John Maier wrote:
> I liked Fortran (at the time), and still have my books, I hated the fact that I...
> 1) couldn't generate ASCII code, so I couldn't do screen formating, on the Wyse terminals,
> connected to the Prime, we were on...
> Primos = Evil

> 2) That formating was such a pain...the Watfor (What for?) was such a pain...
> 
> Pray tell, what in the world are you using, that still has a Fortran program associated
> with it?

Sure, the programs I have are a sort of "best of" collection written by
my advisor in the 60's and early 70's to do biometric analyses with
various multivariate statistics, manipulations of Cartesian coordinates,
and various other cool things that aren't listed in the Little SAS Book.
Given new data, many of the programs can still produce very useful
analyses. As a soon-to-be-PhD, I'm eager for good tools for new research
projects. And in my field (anthropology) there aren't very many people
who *can* get a 30 year-old program working again, so even though my
coding skills are pretty limited, it's interesting to me on several
levels.
> 
> >
> > I'd also be happy to send sources if anyone cares to have a look at the
> > whole thing (and I have 4 or 5 more programs to decipher when this is
> > done). I don't know why, but fortran looks so simple, and yet every time
> > I think I understand the whole program...poof! it's gone.  And the whole
> > thing is only 118 lines + comments!
> >
> 
> Hey, at least you don't have to repunch the cards...
> 
No, but some of the programs still have PUNCH statements in them (which,
I presume, have been deprecated) does that count?
	Best,
	Dave

> :-D
> 
> jam
> 
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