[GreenKeys] Bletchley Park...FORTRAN

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FORTRAN.  What version is it up to these days?  Before my all expenses paid 
vacation to SE Asia I took a FORTRAN course that was required for graduation.  
When I survived and came home, I had to take a FORTRAN IV course in order to 
graduate.  The only difference I can actually recall between the two was that 
the former got run on a 1620 and the latter on a 360.  Those were the days when 
undergraduates and most grad students handed in their punched cards and came 
back the next day to learn what had happened.  I graduated and didn't do 
anything further with computers until early in the PC era, going through early 
Commodores, the 64 and 128, several CPM 2 and 3 machines and then into 8086 and 
80286 based machines all in the course of about two or three years (maybe it was 
four years - old memories tend to compress in time).  But I never encountered 
FORTRAN again.

In a message dated 3/3/2009 9:46:30 PM Central Standard Time, 
chrise at pobox.com writes: 
> You code your application in C or FORTRAN 

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