Advent of Code 2020 in Fortran 77 (mostly)
It’s rained nearly every day since the start of 2026 in Devon. On January 27th the River Otter reached it’s highest recorded level. The picture below was taken from the
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Tag: FORTRAN
Advent of Code 2025 in Fortran 77 (mostly)
This year’s Advent of Code was reduced to 12 days of puzzles. Thankfully, as I managed to complete the last puzzle I had outstanding (Day 10, part 2) a couple
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Fang, Claw and Knight’s WEE FORTRAN
I was recently sent a copy of Knight’s WEE FORTRAN by Sharpworks who had rescued it from a tape belonging to HereBeDragons. There are a couple of references to it
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Advent of Code 2024
Happy new year! This year’s resolution is to blog a little more frequently, so I thought I’d start with a retrospective of last December’s Advent of Code. I chose Fortran
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The Nine Billion Names of God
Sometime in the mid-1970s, my grandmother gave me a book of Arthur C. Clarke’s short stories. The first story in the book, The Nine Billion Names of God, was written
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FORTRAN on the Sharp MZ-700
Yes, really! The sharpmz.no site has a number of programs preserved for download. One of them is the BBG RealFortran compiler, v1, written by Bialke, Berendsen and Gliszczynski. I converted
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