Re: Fortran question

Here's a laugh for you.  This is from my father who was programming for the 
Army in the early 60s.

He was working on a ranging system for Army ordnance.  Of course it was written 
in Fortran. Until the government decided that everything government had to be 
written in COBOL. Then he spent some time translating Fortran code into COBOL.  
I shudder now to think that they were using COBOL to perform Calculus.  This 
story gets a lot of laughs whenever I tell it. I think everyone understands 
that government can be extremely stupid at times.  But we must figure out some 
way that avoids them using our money to do it.

Marvin

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date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 23:11:41 -0500
from: Al Barsa <barsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Fortran question

Fortran is no longer supported on the iSeries.

But my 360 memories (here's to senility) says that most Fortran statements
cam be computed (at great CPU expense) to COBOL COMPUTE statements.  These
memories are over 30 years old.

Al

Al Barsa, Jr.
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I have a customer with a baby 36 - not the software.. but the small AS/400
that was a S/36. They have one application written in FORTRAN which they
would like to migrate to their iSeries.

Any ideas? Anyone done this before??

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