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|    Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Lynn McGuire    |
|    Re: Is there a way in Fortran to designa    |
|    05 Oct 24 06:39:10    |
      From: ldo@nz.invalid              On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 23:10:29 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote:              > Yup, Perl, not Curl. AutoLisp.              Poor you. The idiosyncratic syntax of Lisp without the redeeming advanced       features.              > Yes, I am porting from Open Watcom C++ and F77 to Simply Fortran C++ and       > GFortran right now. Lots of new stuff that I won't use. Incredibly       > better error detection, especially on variable types and bounds.              If I were you, I would look for opportunities to simplify things in that       Fortran code by using new features, where I have to make major       modifications to those parts anyway.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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