kengr

Well, I'm not sure which version of FORTRAN I learned, but I did punch cards for classroom programs in high school (circa 1979). In fact, while all knowledge of FORTRAN has long since been archived out of accessible memory, I have the distinction of being the only person I know of who has used knowledge of FORTRAN as an interrogation tool. While I can't really discuss the details, I can give the moral of the story:

Don't claim "computer programmer" as a cover story unless you are dead certain that hostile interrogators can't find, among their number, someone who knows more about programming than you do. Someone once made that mistake; he turned a lovely shade of pale when I demonstrated superior knowledge of a programming language (FORTRAN) he had claimed to know at a professional level....