13 Jan
2025
13 Jan
'25
8:20 p.m.
OK, but do you know what I mean? I should have said that classic FORTRAN
syntax was a dead end. Modern FORTRAN to me looks like "Algol F".
P.S. Apologies but I may be confusing this thread with another (on this or
some other list) about Hollerith constants. Which
definitely were (semantically) a dead end.
On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM Van Snyder <van.snyder(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:
On Mon, 2025-01-13 at 17:16 -0800, Joseph S. Barrera
III via cctalk wrote:
FORTRAN was a dead end, both in syntax (line-oriented, line numbers) and
semantics (common blocks, static arrays, very poor string support).
Fortran 2025, the sixth edition, is rather different from 1956.