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In response to "which are easy compared to C, Pascal, FORTRAN, ASM, Ada -- nm" by SyrDragon

fortran was the 1st language I learned. We would dial in, using a modem with a phone cradle, to the University of Rochester servers to run stuff -- nm

Posted by decline (aka Decline) Oct 11 '18, 11:57

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Yup. cobol and fortran. -- nm - Spawn Oct 11, 11:59
I learned Fortran when I was still dodging velociraptors to get to class. I have pretty much forgotten every single bit of it. Is it still used? -- nm - crash davis Oct 11, 11:59 2
- not really - there might be some really old servers running it in the gov't or academia -- nm - decline Oct 11, 12:02 1
  - thanks, I don't feel so bad forgetting it then :) -- nm - crash davis Oct 11, 12:04

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