Subj : Re: Math and programming
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Dr. What
Date : Sun Oct 12 2025 10:29:00

 pF> The FORTRAN version I started out with was great, the code was quite
 pF> readable. I don't know if it was FORTRAN 66 or FORTRAN 77, but back then
 pF> the looping was pretty simple. They might have had a GOSUB command back
 pF> then, not sure now.

That's what a SUBROUTINE was for under FORTRAN.  No GOSUB needed.

But FORTRAN did have some interesting IF and GOTO constructs.

ex: IF (variable) label-1,label-0,label+1
or 2 types of computed GOTOs.  One similar to BASIC's ON GOTO.  But the other you could set a variable to a label and goto the variable.

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