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|    Steven G. Kargl to All    |
|    Re: Programming language and IDE design    |
|    19 Nov 13 15:36:35    |
      From: sgk@REMOVEtroutmask.apl.washington.edu              > [Fortran through F77 potentially had to look arbitrarily far ahead to       > tell FORMAT statements from an assignment to an array called FORMAT.       > BTDT. But I would be surprised if any modern languages were that hard       > to lex. -John]              Fixed source form is supported by all Fortran standards (F77, F90, F95,       F2003, F2008) and it is still supported in the current draft of the next       revision to the Fortran standard. So, I suppose you need to define       "modern langauges".              --       steve       ["not Fortran" -John]              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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