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|    Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Thomas Koenig    |
|    Re: Intel Fortran Help in VS    |
|    27 Jan 24 20:44:38    |
      From: ldo@nz.invalid              On Sat, 27 Jan 2024 11:04:21 -0000 (UTC), Thomas Koenig wrote:              > Fortran 90 was a modern programming language including all       > the useful features of C (except unsigned numbers), but surpassing it in       > power by far.              It even does recursive functions/subroutines. But you must explicitly       declare them RECURSIVE, which C doesn’t.              On the plus side, seems it has a proper MODULE import facility       (reminiscent of Ada), as opposed to relying on the #include hack.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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