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[GWS01]

Hello folks, :)

Yep, it's me. I'm not sure I shall fit in here .. everyone seems very serious with noses to their various grindstones. All busy using languages I've never heard of.

I'm a long-time Fortran programmer on IBM 360/370's. Then along came PC's and I discovered QuickBasic, Visual Basic 5/6, Delphi, and more recently when I turned to programming for fun - IBasic and it's successor Creative basic.

I've also used the more powerful Emergence Basic for a few projects.

Basic! .. :rolleyes: I can hear the spluttering from here. Yep, good 'ol Basic. How I wish I could have got my hands on that during the 40 years of Engineering, Maths and Statistics work I did for the Electricity, Railway and Education industries I worked in prior to retirement.

Oh! didn't I mention also working on a Honeywell 800 using AutoMath (a Fortran look-alike) in the late 50's ? Hmm .. that gives me around 50 years experience .. ;)

It might also make me the oldest person around here at 73 .. :w00t:

So whether I've got anything useful to contribute, we'll have to see ..

all the best,:)

Graham

[WingedPanther]

Welcome aboard! It's been a while since I had to touch any fortran code (about 17 years?), so I can kind of identify. You've got a few years on me, but good to have you with us :)

[James.H]

Hi Graham welcome to codecall!

It's great to have an experienced fortran programmer join us!