In a previous article, "G.R. Patterson III" said:
Paul Tomblin wrote:
In a previous article, "Mike Noel" said:
Is this a commonly used phraseology from ATC? I would have thought just
Only if they're old FORTRAN programmers.
The FORTRAN I used didn't have this command. C did/does. IIRC, PL/I did also.
I have no idea what weird ass version of FORTRAN you used, but every
version of FORTRAN I used, from IBM FORTRAN-G to Fortran-77 to Vax Fortran
to Watfiv-S had it.
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