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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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