From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 13:15:15 -0600, Gary Scott wrote:   
      
   > Harris VOS Fortran (~1980) had a lot of extensions beyond F77 that   
   > eventually went into F90 (long procedure/variable names (63 chars), free   
   > form source, full complement of end statements, async IO (although a   
   > different form), "Purdue" bit intrinsics (1753), and many others).  They   
   > were way ahead of the standard, but there's always risk in adding   
   > extensions.  These were however essential to make the systems usable for   
   > real-time programming (in addition to program priority control, process   
   > initiation/termination, hardware interrupt handling/processing, shared   
   > memory access and control, etc.)   
      
   Strange, isn’t it. PL/I was supposed to be the language with all of that--   
   I gather it was even going to be called “FORTRAN VI” at one point.   
      
   That never caught on much (outside of IBM). Yet Fortran has ended up   
   reinventing a lot of it.   
      
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