Other What's the go-to scripting language to learn for general purpose-scripting on freebsd?

ralphbsz said:
I used to actually indent Fortran IV source code. It doesn't violate the rules, makes things easier to read. Makes the code narrower, since you only have from column 8 to 72. But back then, we had fewer variables, therefore shorter variable names.


Was it Mortran? That was a genius language. Terrible hack, hard to debug (because the generated Fortran code was ugly it times), but pleasant to code in. Sort of Fortran IV with modern structured tooling, like good loops.
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No, it was homemade and didn't actually have a name as such, just "our Fortran dialect". The pre-proc was written in CDC Compass.
 
mer said:
last time I used it was on punch cards. 80 column
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We had a guy who thought timesharing was a work of the Devil Incarnate. I think he was the only person at the Uni who still submitted card decks. Really big card decks.
:)
 
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