Why was FORTRAN never offered for the Atari 8-bit?

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1 hour ago, chevymad said:

I too had one of those. We had to pay the local Kinkos for a 3 ring binder full of copies. 3 binders for the semester, each as much as a regular text book. Then we were supposed to edit it as we used it and turn them back to him after we finished the class... so no selling it back either. 

 

That's ridiculous! I can think of one class where we used a draft manuscript as the textbook, but we did not have to pay for the copies, nor did we have to edit and return them at the end of the semester. If memory serves, the substantive content was solid, but the formatting was still a bit rough.