Fortran Versions (was JB Passes)

I suspect because the concept of a sense switch on a contemporary machine is moot - there are no physical switches to toggle to signal a change in the execution of a program. How did newer versions of the language handle deprecation of the sense switch - error, warning, ignore? Lee Courtney > -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org > [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of woodelf > Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 1:00 PM > To: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > Subject: Re: Fortran Versions (was JB Passes) > > Chuck Guzis wrote: > > > > I rather liked Basic FORTRAN IV (that's what it was called). A > > minimal functional subset; no logical IFs, ASSIGNed GOTOs, object- > > time FORMAT or named COMMON. Just a handful of > statements that you > > could pretty much compile and run anywhere. > > I rather liked full blown FORTRAN IV. I have been looking at > the PDP8 Fortran IV version and all things considered that > was a powerful machine for its price range in the 1970's. > All this talk of Fortran 77, 90 make fortran a more modern > langage but it seems to me they lost something in that the > > > Cheers, > > Chuck > > >