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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]   
      
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