An experiment with Fortran and Pascal

Abstract This paper reports on a programming experiment involving the languages Fortran and Pascal. The subject of the experiment was the simulation of the X‐ray department of a local hospital. The programming was carried out by two different programmers at different periods of time. A static analysis was performed on both models to determine how the languages were used by both programmers. The compilation and execution speeds of both models were then determined when executed on an ICL 1906S computer. The results indicate that the Pascal program is substantially faster in both compilation and execution speed than an equivalent Fortran program.