(j3.2006) Fortran plug-in

[Micki St. James]

 Researching plug-ins for a Java project, I was surprised to learn that
Fortran was one of the very first plug-ins! Somehow I suspect Fortran 2008 may
be a little big to be suitable as a plug-in ...
 From wikipedia:
>Plug-ins appeared as early as the mid 1970s, when the EDT<wlmailhtml:{855E215F-4623-4427-A244-AE60BE62E681}mid://00000013/!x-usc:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDT_text_editor> text
editor<wlmailhtml:{855E215F-4623-4427-A244-AE60BE62E681}mid://00000013/!x-usc:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_editor>running
on the
Unisys<wlmailhtml:{855E215F-4623-4427-A244-AE60BE62E681}mid://00000013/!x-usc:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unisys>
VS/9<wlmailhtml:{855E215F-4623-4427-A244-AE60BE62E681}mid://00000013/!x-usc:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VS/9>
operating
system<wlmailhtml:{855E215F-4623-4427-A244-AE60BE62E681}mid://00000013/!x-usc:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system>using
the Univac
90/60<wlmailhtml:{855E215F-4623-4427-A244-AE60BE62E681}mid://00000013/!x-usc:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univac_90/60>series
mainframe
computer<wlmailhtml:{855E215F-4623-4427-A244-AE60BE62E681}mid://00000013/!x-usc:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainframe_computer>provided
the ability to run a program from the editor >and to allow such a
program to access the editor buffer, thus allowing an external program to
access an edit session in
memory.[4]<wlmailhtml:{855E215F-4623-4427-A244-AE60BE62E681}mid://00000013/!x-usc:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/#cite_note-4>The
plug-in program could make calls to the editor to have it perform
text-editing services >upon the buffer that the editor shared with the
plug-in. The Waterloo<wlmailhtml:{855E215F-4623-4427-A244-AE60BE62E681}mid://00000013/!x-usc:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Waterloo>Fortran
compiler<wlmailhtml:{855E215F-4623-4427-A244-AE60BE62E681}mid://00000013/!x-usc:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiler>used
this feature to allow interactive compilation of
Fortran<wlmailhtml:{855E215F-4623-4427-A244-AE60BE62E681}mid://00000013/!x-usc:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran>programs
edited by EDT.
  Micki
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