4 Dec
2018
4 Dec
'18
3:23 p.m.
As I said, I'm an OS type, I just sit near a number of compiler folks and
have been known to eat lunch with them - so I'm not aware of any that.
Unfortunately, about a month ago we lost the guy to ask about it (the late
Stan Whitlock), who was secretary of the Fortran standards committee for
about 30 years. I'll try to ask Eklund and Grove (who are both retired
but I still see socially on occasion) what they remember about F and if I
learn anything I'll pass it back here.
Clem
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On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 6:53 AM Tony Finch <dot(a)dotat.at> wrote:
Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
Fortran2018 (which was release just last week
BTW) is hardly the
language I
learned in the early 1970s (Fortran-IV) or my
father a dozen or so years
previous to me.
One of the more obscure books I have is about "the F programming language"
http://www.fortran.com/F/ which is the modern subset of Fortran 95. A
curious thing about F is that it doesn't include DO WHILE; my
understanding is that there was a faction of the Fortran standardization
committee which was firmly against WHILE, and that was the faction that
defined the F subset.
I can't now find any information about this argument / controversy, but my
link archive includes https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=800168.811545
Brenda Baker's paper on converting Fortran IV programs to ratfor.
Tony.
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