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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.   
      
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   steve   
      
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