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   In article <10lm24t$iqv$1@gal.iecc.com>, John Levine   wrote:   
   >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.   
      
   In 1990 I led a project with Shell. All calculations were still required to   
   use FORTRAN IV. Because there was substantial graphics involved we got   
   dispensation to use c on VMS. (Using transputers, also occam was allowed.)   
   Compatibility was a priority.   
      
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