Re: Fortran question

[Al Barsa <barsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh, gosh.  I have lots of teenage memories!

Nevertheless, my memories of the COBOL COMPUTE statement is that it was
simply FORTRAN statement in a wrapper.

Now, let's be clear.  I took a course that taught:

    /360 Assembler,
   COBOL
   and then FORTRAN.

The course taught the exactly same project as a "to do" in each of the
three languages.

When I went onto the MS program, for whatever reason (probably a bad one),
I chose to write one of my two MS theses in COBOL.  It was a very expensive
project that was funded by a WJ firm that essentially bought my own 370/145
(remember the senility factor) to do my work.  Don't ask if me the memory
or other CPW stuff, but, I know that every run took 45 minutes per stock (a
factor of the days analyzed), and  (at the end)  I did 20+ stocks.

 Was it a good thought?

Probably not.  (Although there were many exec's on WS that disagreed with
me, likely to prop up my vanity.)

Never-the-less a good academic thought, with somebody spending *LOTS of
money behind me.  (IBM had a smile on their faces.)

At the end, I got to spend a few days on the floor of the NYSE, which might
have taught me more than my 5 years at RPI!

All in all, a happy feeling.
.
Although I cannot name the WS firm (under an agreement), they did pay for
most of our wedding and reception (abiet modest).

Al

Al Barsa, Jr.
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According to your teenage memories, are there any other ways? :-)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Al Barsa" <barsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 10:11 PM
Subject: Re: Fortran question


> Fortran is no longer supported on the iSeries.
>
> But my 360 memories (here's to senility) says that most Fortran
statements
> cam be computed (at great CPU expense) to COBOL COMPUTE statements.
These
> memories are over 30 years old.
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> Al
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> I have a customer with a baby 36 - not the software.. but the small
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> that was a S/36. They have one application written in FORTRAN which they
> would like to migrate to their iSeries.
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> Any ideas? Anyone done this before??

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