From: garylscott@sbcglobal.net   
      
   On 10/4/2024 3:04 PM, 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.   
      
   Fortran does have a form of varying string...just not super convenient   
   to use in the general case.   
      
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