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   Robin Vowels to All   
   Re: Keywords and Reserved Words   
   10 Mar 22 09:55:46   
   
   From: robin51@dodo.com.au   
      
   > [If anyone wants to know how to find the tokens in old space-insensitive   
   Fortran   
   > I can tell you, but it's as ugly as you might imagine. -John]   
      
   No it's not.   
   See A. H. J. Sale, "The Classification of FORTRAN Statements", Computer   
   Journal,   
   Vol. 14 No. 1, 1971.   
   [Having written production Fortran compilers, I can assure you that to   
   do it right is quite ugly. I looked at the article and he missed some things,   
   and he made some unrealistic assumptions that a compiler would accept nothing   
   beyond what was in the Basic Fortran standard. -John]   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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