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EGTRAN(ID:3778/egt001)

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Country: United Kingdom
Designed 1965
Published: 1965
Genus: Fortran I-III Variants

for EGdon forTRAN, Dialect of FORTRAN II for the KDF9 system.

Hardware:

KDF9 English Electric-Leo-Marconi

Related languages

EGDON	→	EGTRAN	Subsystem
FORTRAN II	→	EGTRAN	Dialect of
RLB	→	EGTRAN	Target language for

References:

Burns, D; Hawkins, EN; Judd, DR and Venn, JL (1965) Burns, D; Hawkins, EN; Judd, DR and Venn, JL "The Egdon system for the KDF9" Abstract Extract: General information Extract: The compilers
in (1965) The Computer Journal 8(4) 1965
Resources

Paul Mather: a USENET memory of EGTRAN I remember using what I think must have been the first British Fortran
compiler back in the mid 1960s (Egtran, from the Atomic Energy Authority at
Winfrith, Dorset). It was Fortran II basically. I also remember spending
days trying to work out why a KDF9 thought that 1+1=99. I had done exactly
what you have done here, and I discovered rule number one: always store
scalar subroutine arguments within the subroutine as local scalars, unless
you explicitly wish to modify them. Rule number 2 is: there are no rules.

Paul Mather

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