Warp wrote:
>   I always got the impression that COBOL was the "BASIC" of the 70's,

Vice versa. BASIC was the COBOL of the 70's. They were both pretty much 
the same programming model, tho. Flat code space, flat data space, 
everything preallocated, etc.

> while all real programmers used Fortran. (Heck, even nowadays some old
> gurus state that real programmers use Fortran.)

Depends what you were programming. People doing databases and business 
math (i.e., decimal, reports, etc) didn't use FORTRAN. People doing 
physics simulations didn't use COBOL.

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