[COFF] Happy birthday, John Backus!

[Clem Cole]

Cool

On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 1:11 AM Wesley Parish <wobblygong at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, gfortran swallowed eklund.f without a complain and threw me out
> an a.out, which ran as expected.
>
> I've got a Fortran IV manual lying around somewhere: I suppose life
> not too short for a bit of gratuitous masochism? (I also had an old
> Cobol manual of the same vintage, but I gave it to a friend who
> believe it or not, wanted to learn it. Gratuitous masochism indeed.
> Cobol! ;/ )
>
> Thanks
>
> Wesley
>
> On 12/5/19, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
> > Wesley - one more thing.  When you copy the original card deck, please
> > remember that because it's fixed format so make sure you have the proper
> > number of leading spaces after your cut/paste it (it did when I inserted
> > into the email).   If you drop any leading spaces or try to use a tab,
> it's
> > likely that the fixed format parser for continuation lines will get
> > confused.
> >
>
-- 
Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual
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