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   Thomas Koenig to Lawrence D'Oliveiro   
   Re: Intel Fortran Help in VS   
   27 Jan 24 11:04:21   
   
   From: tkoenig@netcologne.de   
      
   Lawrence D'Oliveiro  schrieb:   
   > On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 18:42:16 -0000 (UTC), Thomas Koenig wrote:   
   >   
   >> Fortran 90 where it went wrong - standard was very late, the   
   >> implementations came late (with the exception of NAG, which was very   
   >> fast), and g77 (which was part of the gcc suite) was F77.   
   >   
   > Still, I had a look at the spec, and Fortran 90 was quite a breathtaking   
   > advance.   
      
   Absolutely. Fortran 90 was a modern programming language including   
   all the useful features of C (except unsigned numbers), but   
   surpassing it in power by far.   
      
   But an intermediate version in the mid-1980s with only half the   
   features added might have worked better.  Interesting question would   
   be which features...   
      
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