Re: Public disclosure of discovered vulnerabilities
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Re: Public disclosure of discovered vulnerabilities

From: Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btopenworld.com>
Date: Wed May 25 2005 - 17:37:07 CEST



Jan Vorbrüggen wrote:



>> Fortran 4 and 77 cannot handle interrupts or recursion.  Its I/O and 


>> character handling were very inefficient.


> 


> 


> For the latter two points, please explain why you think that is the case.


> 


>     Jan



The FORMAT statement was interpreted at run time - that is a big 


overhead.  COBOL was used when you wanted efficient I/O.



Andrew Swallow


Received on Thu Sep 29 21:38:39 2005