I was expecting Plankalkül: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankalk%C3%BCl
I was expecting Flow-Matic but your mention is even older.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOW-MATIC
Learning Fortran (2024)
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Re: Learning Fortran (2024)
#32Just looking at Fortran code fills the back of my mouth with the sensation I got from being around the printed IBM manuals in the basement computer lab at UIC of being around dust and powdered printer paper.
Re: Learning Fortran (2024)
#33The article did not discuss this, but to me, one of the bigger differences between Fortran and more modern languages is the difference between functions and subroutines. Yes, they are not synonyms in Fortran and serve different purposes. I think this would trip up more people initially than the clunky syntax. It is also a bit funny that the author complains about older Fortran programs requiring SCREAMING_CASE, when…
> difference between functions and subroutines. Waitaminit, is that why we have "sub" in Visual Basic ?
Pascal also distinguishes between functions and subroutines (procedures)
Re: Learning Fortran (2024)
#34I can't believe they thought so hard about how threads work in the first programming language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_machine
I thought that was going to be what the article was about (or perhaps Lady Ada Lovelace’s ideas for programming).
Re: Learning Fortran (2024)
#35Real programmers can write FORTRAN in any language...
Re: Learning Fortran (2024)
#36One of oldest HIGH-LEVEL programming languages. "Programming" originally meant physically flipping switches or plugging cables into boards. Eventually, this moved to binary (1s and 0s), and eventually to Assembly.
Re: Learning Fortran (2024)
#37One of oldest HIGH-LEVEL programming languages. "Programming" originally meant physically flipping switches or plugging cables into boards. Eventually, this moved to binary (1s and 0s), and eventually to Assembly.
a Jacquard Machine has entered the chat ...
Re: Learning Fortran (2024)
#38Semi-related, I've wanted to learn Plankalkül for some time but have had immense difficulty "getting it". Has anyone on here gotten the hang of it?
Re: Learning Fortran (2024)
#39Very good choice. Focus on the newest standard.
Re: Learning Fortran (2024)
#40I was expecting Plankalkül: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankalk%C3%BCl
I was expecting Flow-Matic but your mention is even older. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOW-MATIC
Fortran, the language, is also older than FLOW-MATIC.
FLOW-MATIC's claim to fame was beating Fortran at releasing a working implementation (and having syntax that looked like English, but that's not something to be proud of). Plankalkül, however, has not yet been implemented so if we're only counting releases of working software, it isn't a contender.