Re: How to create a new folder in FORTRAN 77?



kronec...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Use a real programming language. Fortran is for number crunching only.

K.D

Oh! Dear me, no!
I have used C, Forth, Basic, PL/1, Pascal, Algol, Cobol, Lisp, and
other languages as well as Fortran in my 1960-to-date programming
life.

I have used Fortran F77 extensively for a variety of programming
tasks: accounting, demand reporting, games, puzzle solving,
sociological research, hotel management, process control, nuclear
physics modelling, decompiling and program charting, and many others;
actually not that much number crunching other than matrix operations
and linear programming and cost optimising.

I would like to say that Fortran is excellent for accounting, report
writing, lanuage text parsing and file exploration and conversions. I
only use Fortran 90/95 to get around Microsoft-imposed difficulties
with port access and control in Windows NT and later sistems, and to
imitate Windowing functions for bosses and secretaries who never heard
of DOS.
.

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