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|    Steven G. Kargl to Lawrence D'Oliveiro    |
|    Re: Is there a way in Fortran to designa    |
|    04 Oct 24 20:25:56    |
      From: sgk@REMOVEtroutmask.apl.washington.edu              On Fri, 04 Oct 2024 20:04:05 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:              > 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.              The above line of code in not standard conforming Fortran.              --       steve              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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