Re: Fortran question

[Jerry Adams <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Trevor,

I've never used it, but I thought that PL/I, like Algol, was supposed to 
be a hybrid of Cobol and Fortran.  Someone else on the list would 
probably have a better idea if that's true or not.  If so, though, 
wouldn't the conversion to PL/I be a better option than to Cobol?


Years ago I had an issue with a Cobol '74 compiler on a S/34 after 
moving from a S/3 which had a '68 compiler.  Anyway, even though it 
wasn't supported, our SE (remember those guys?) was able to get a '68 
compiler from Rochester for our /34.  Was Fortran *ever* supported on 
the AS/400 (and I use the term deliberately)?  If so, might there be an 
old (unsupported) compiler for Fortran?  But, then, it would have 
probably been for the CISC boxes.


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Trevor Perry wrote:

> According to your teenage memories, are there any other ways? :-)
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> From: "Al Barsa" <barsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> > Fortran is no longer supported on the iSeries.
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> > 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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> > I have a customer with a baby 36 - not the software.. but the small AS/400
> > 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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