Re: How many years we have been programming in Fortran

From: Bill Bertram (wkb_at_aansto.gov.au)
Date: 08/30/04 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 11:30:44 +1000

"Weisberg" <weisberg39@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:78f60ba9.0408270923.74d0f9a@posting.google.com...
> A recurring theme in posts on this forum, on all sorts of different
> subjects, is like the following:
>
> "... In all the years I have been programming in Fortran (35 years),
> ..."
>
> Only 35 years? I have been programming in Fortran for 42 years,
> starting with the IBM 1620. Also I programmed in "Mortran" on the
> Johniac computer 43 years ago. We wrote our code on forms and
> submitted it to Keypunch.
>
> Who has been programming in Fortran the longest and is still mentally
> active enough to follow Internet newsgroups?

My first programming was done in 1961 using Fortran II on an IBM 1620 at,
what was then, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. I have been actively
Fortranning ever since and still get paid for doing it.

Cheers,
   Bill.

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