Fortran pioneer John Backus dies at 82

[nihil]

Amen!

I still have the first two computer programs I wrote............back in 1970 in FORTRAN IV(e)..............80 column punched cards ................ back then, the only skiddies you might find, were in your underpants (jockey shorts)

[fourdc]

Nihil,

Likewise. The high school I went to had an IBM 1130 and we could write Fortran or Basic programs.

//JOB
//FOR
//IOCS
Let n=0
10 n=n+1
print 20
20 format "Because I am the greatest"
If n .LT. 1000 Go to 10
End

The //FOR statement card was fun because it only recognized the "//FOR", we used to drive the teachers nuts by typing up our own cards that read //FORnication is fun!

Its an amazing world having to write your program and data and only take 8K