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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.   
      
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