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From: khb@chiba.Sun.COM (Keith Bierman - SPD Languages Marketing -- MTS)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: f88 summary
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Date: 20 Jun 89 03:02:40 GMT
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In article <666@tolsun.tut.fi> jhol@tolsun.UUCP (Jouko Holopainen) writes:
>In article <10398@smoke.BRL.MIL> chidsey@brl.arpa (Irving Chidsey (INF) <chidsey>) writes:
>
>>I am getting to old to learn all that before I retire.
>
>Nothing personal, just that 100% of code I have ever seen published on
>any book/paper contains 0% f77 and 100% f66. That is, no IF/THEN/ELSE/ENDIF
>but rather IF() 10 20 30 ...

I suggest that you have not looked very hard. I went over to my handy
bookcase and pulled the FIRST non-manual likely to include code ...
page 526 of Numerical Recipes  ..

	IF (IHIT .EQ. 0) THEN
	   LISTA(KK) = J
	   KK        = KK+1
	ELSE IF (IHIT .GT. 1)  .... ETC

SECOND BOOK


PAGE 521 of "solving problems on concurrent processors"

	IF (TASK .NE. QUIT) THEN
	   IF (TASK .EQ.UPDATE) THEN
		CALL INITCP
	   ELSEIF (TASK .EQ. UPDATE) ... ETC.

I do own books which use older notation (e.g. my old CDC and UNIVAC
manuals, Metcalfs old book on Optimization) but many books have "upgraded"
	
>
>Most annoying to see "conversion to other languages is easy" or "maximum
>readability" and then constructs like IF () GOTO 30 ... 30 CONTINUE
>
>I would have liked to see arithmetic IF removed from f88...

If all your books are still f66 ... what about your programs ? Would
you really want them all to break ? What one hopes to have happen is
for the obsolete forms (viz. if () 1,2,3) to slowly wither away.
Sudden removeal would reduce the utility of the standard.
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