Giving up , he wrote it in FORTRAN and it ran in five minutes .
The arrival of FORTRAN instilled an important lesson ; Kurtz , having been indoctrinated that FORTRAN was slow , spent several months and about an hour of CPU time writing a program .
Giving up , Kurtz wrote it in FORTRAN and it ran in five minutes .
The arrival of FORTRAN instilled an important lesson ; Kurtz , having been indoctrinated that FORTRAN was slow , spent several months and about an hour of CPU time writing a program .