From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 15:31:51 -0600, Lynn McGuire wrote:   
      
   > Much Fortran code was written under the F66 rules until the late 1980s   
   > if you supported multiple platforms (we supported ten platforms in the   
   > 1980s).   
      
   Why did it take vendors so long to catch up to FORTRAN 77?   
      
   By the way, I thought the limit on identifier length had been lifted in   
   FORTRAN 77, but I was wrong: it took until Fortran 90 to raise the limit   
   to 31.   
      
   > You can update it to longer names at your own peril.   
      
   Why is that still the case? Longer names have been allowed for going back   
   about a third of a century now.   
      
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