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   From: johnl@taugh.com   
      
   According to Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester  :   
   >I want to quote an old comp.compilers post by its moderator about how   
   >FORTRAN programmers are not bothered to consult the FORTRAN standard   
   >(circa FORTRAN-66) so they insist that they know FORTRAN when they do   
   >not, so a new FORTRAN standard (circa FORTRAN-77) made a   
   >backwards-incompatible change to accept this wrong belief of what   
   >FORTRAN really is. Alas searching for it takes too long (the 3 search   
   >options offered by   
      
   I'm pretty sure I didn't say that.  Possibly someone else did but I don't   
   recall that either.  In fact F77 tried hard to stay compatible with F66 and   
   the few incompatibilities were well documented and had good rationales.   
      
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