On Oct 9, 12:01 pm, (Nick Maclaren) wrote:
In article . com,Des Higgins writes:

|
| I like the references to Fortran! I am currently revising a
| course to teach Fortran to (graduate) students. Anyone who
| needs help with that sort of thing is welcome to contact me :-)
|
| this is from memory and is not accurate but have not written Fortran
| since 1993:
|
| IF(HELPFLAG.EQ.1) THEN
| GOTO 10
| ELSE
| GOTO 11987
| ENF IF
| 10 WRITE(5,10836) 'Help Nick'
| 10836 FORMAT('*')
| 11987 CONTINUE
| STOP

You do, indeed, need help :-) Seehttp://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/courses/.

Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Were you appalled by the bad structure or the bad grammar? Both were
pretty dire. I struggled to remember the syntax. I used to write huge
wadges of the stuff (it looked nicer than above) but the last program
I wrote was in Python and that was 8 years ago.
These days I just sit at a PC looking perplexed.

Des