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Paolo Amoroso
Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space  ·  activity timestamp 3 hours ago

Does the text output of your Fortran code look dull? Cheaply increase the value of your software and attract new users by restyling with these newfangled graphics primitives.

As seen on this Stanford CS Technical Report published in 1978.

https://bitsavers.org/pdf/stanford/Stanford_CS_TR_Collection_2025-12-12/PDF/1978/CS-TR-78-663.pdf

#fortran #graphics #retrocomputing

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arclight
arclight
@arclight@oldbytes.space replied  ·  activity timestamp 1 hour ago

@amoroso Nice mention of SNOBOL for text processing on page 10 :)

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Paolo Amoroso
Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space replied  ·  activity timestamp 1 hour ago

@arclight After all there wasn't much else for text processing back then.

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Weekend Editor
Weekend Editor
@weekend_editor@mathstodon.xyz replied  ·  activity timestamp 49 minutes ago

@amoroso @arclight

I recently looked at some pre-web scraping tool I wrote in Lisp in 1986, to extract real-time weather data.

It was... complicated.

I thought, "Sheesh. Coupla regexps & we coulda been outta here in 10 minutes, tops."

Sheepishness at your past efforts is a sign of progress.

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Paul Flo Williams
Paul Flo Williams
@hisdeedsaredust@mastodon.online replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@amoroso That scan is really messed up — it looks like a ransom note!

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Paolo Amoroso
Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@hisdeedsaredust LOL indeed.

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