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   Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Louis Krupp   
   Re: Is there a way in Fortran to designa   
   15 Oct 24 22:32:06   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 02:43:47 -0600, Louis Krupp wrote:   
      
   > I never would   
   > have guessed that 47 years later, FORTRAN would be Fortran and ALGOL   
   > would be mostly forgotten.)   
      
   What irks me most is the prevalence of “=” over “:=” for assignment.   
      
   But, looking at language specs for Fortran-90 and later, would you still   
   say “FORTRAN is Fortran”?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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