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   On 04/10/2024 21:36, Gary Scott wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
      
   Yes but for practical purposes it only works for scalars, not arrays.  Since   
   nearly all the rest of Fortran is based on the (unstated, but wi   
   ely-understood) principle that arrays are first-class objects, this is a real   
   pity.   
      
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