FORTRAN 66

since unknown year (earliest usage recorded on this site was 1963)

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rragan

danceswithvowels

joemcmahon

gjmilne

undoingemptyvoid

kan

rragan - 15 years

danceswithvowels - 6 years

joemcmahon - 4 years

gjmilne - 4 years

undoingemptyvoid - 1 years

kan - 1 years

rragan

1963–1977

My first programming language. Learned in high school for the IBM 709

danceswithvowels

1976–1981

SCADA on PDP-11 (RSX-11S/M/M+) systems. DEC's FORTRAN4 and FORTRAN4-Plus compilers were okay for the time, but slow. The threaded-code model (kinda like p-code) didn't help.

joemcmahon

1978–1981

Taught a class in this in college, barely staying ahead of the class as I taught them. Wrote a proof-of-concept system for NASA using a Ratfor compiler written in FORTRAN G. Highlight of that was reimplementing partitioned datasets using FORTRAN keyed datasets.

gjmilne

1983–1986

Used in the degree and in my first job for a little but until we switched to C for almost everything

undoingemptyvoid

1984

Used it in college, strangely enough not for math. We used it for DBMS processing? It was still FORTRAN, but not as its creators intended.

1984