jasonc741 on Nostr: Not punch card old, but i did learn Fortran 77 in a freshman engineering class in ...
Not punch card old, but i did learn Fortran 77 in a freshman engineering class in 1994. Fortran syntax was still based on 70 characters per line to fit punched cards. Next semester the department switched to C++. Interesting fact the electrical modeling software PSS/E-PSCAD still uses Fortran.
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