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Lawrence D'Oliveiro to R Daneel Olivaw

Re: Is there a way in Fortran to designa

04 Oct 24 20:04:05

   From: ldo@nz.invalid   

   On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 12:13:52 +0200, R Daneel Olivaw wrote:   

   > but not as friendly as   
   >        character*28 txthdr /'Text header, with a comma   ' /   

   With all these additions to Fortran, I keep wondering “when will they   
   finish reinventing PL/I?”. Because at an early point in the development of   
   PL/I, they were going to call it “FORTRAN VI”.   

   One PL/I feature still missing from Fortran is VARYING strings.   

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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)

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