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Authored by: rcsteiner on Friday, April 20 2012 @ 05:20 PM EDT |
Absolutely. I've worked on airline applications written in FORTRAN 66 that had
very large collections of specialized "external subroutines"
(precompiled program elements that you would gather into your program at
"map" time) to handle just about everything from specialized file
access to fast buffer copying using specialized hardware instructions to
squeezing spaces and/or nulls out of an indicated buffer.
The FORTRAN language doesn't do much all by itself, really, just logical
structure. FORTRAN 66 didn't even have a CHARACTER variable type or block IFs.
However, given enough previously written and thoroughly tested subroutines, you
could make a programmer's life a LOT easier, and you could accomplish some
amazing things.
Of course, each had formally defined calling sequences, etc. Application
Programming Interface. What does it need, where do I put it, and what comes out
when it's done?
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-Rich Steiner >>>---> Mableton, GA USA
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