Jim, of course you don't mean NorTel - you mean either Northern 
Telecom, or its predecessor, Northern Electric.

I worked for both of these entities (which were both the same company 
as Nortel).

Northern Electric, from 1970 to 1973, and then Northern Telecom from 
1977 to 1979.

Thems were the days.


At 09:42 AM 2011-01-20, James B. Byrne wrote:
>On Thu, January 20, 2011 09:25, Chuck Trites wrote:
> > Not sure what you mean by COBOL written in FORTRAN?
> >
>
>It is a play on the words of an old bromide: "You can write FORTRAN
>in any Language."
>
>The FORTRAN language is really not suited to implementing a business
>application like MANMAN but that was what the authors evidently felt
>most comfortable with.  Either that, or they could not afford HP's
>COBOL licence.  Or, perhaps HP COBOL simply did not work reliably,
>as I discovered the hard way at NorTel in the early 80s.
>
>In any case, MANMAN's authors had to create, in FORTRAN, all of the
>structures provided directly in COBOL.
>
>
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