Re: Sausage Software: the products

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From: Patrick Dunford
Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 00:00

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Verily, verily Bruce@hoult.actrix.gen.nz (Bruce Hoult) didst write on
Mon, 4 May 1998 23:56:11 +1200 in
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>I can't imagine a place going *back* from Pascal to FORTRAN in 1984!  Jeez.
>I was doing things like playing with Turbo Pascal on a DEC Rainbow,
>Modula II on the VAX, and machine code on a 128 K Mac that year!

Not at all. The PDP-11 in question was running a variety of packages
including Fortran, Pascal and SPSS. I have done a lot of Pascal in the
last 17 years or so, but Fortran was a requirement for a paper I was
doing in 1985 (not 1984, oops) at University. I would not be surprised
if it is still being used in some quarters.

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Date: 1998/05/04
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