From: Danny@hyperspace.vogon.gov   
      
   Steven G. Kargl wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   I have not fed it through the compiler I used to use (mainframe, and I   
   no longer have access) but that compiler conformed to Fortran77 to the   
   extent they did not even offer integer*8.   
   They did have some local extensions (statement functions) but they were   
   clearly marked as non-standard in the manuals.   
      
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