On 08/11/2020 12:14 PM, %% wrote:

I thought punching cards to run FORTRAN IV programs on a 360/30 sucked.

Yeah, specially when you were lucky to get one run a day.
Thats why I ran it myself at night. Multiple runs were easy.

I could not and still cannot type for ****. Thank the gods for decent
editors, autocomplete, syntax checking and compilers that tell you you
screwed up again in 24 seconds rather than 24 hours.

It did serve me well in later years. NOAA has quite a bit of free
software, a lot of which is in Fortran 77. I worked for one company
where the chemists were big on Fortran too. A handheld pH meter with an
embedded 8049 isn't exactly a happy home for Fortran but I could
translate their equations into assembler relatively easily.