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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Fortran Standard?
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Date: 2 May 90 13:00:17 GMT
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In article <46300091@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> gwg33762@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
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>Does anyone know: (1) If there is a standard (unix) for Fortran?
>                  (2) If there is an ST compiler which compiles unix fortran?

I'm not sure what gwg means by a Unix standard, but Fortran-77 is
described by a standard document ANSI X3.9-1978.  Unix f77 includes some
extensions as documented in a 1978 paper by Feldman & Weinberger.  Since
f77 is closely linked to C, non-Unix compilers generally do not share
the C-like extensions.

Both the Absoft and Prospero compilers appear to be full Fortran-77
implementations.


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William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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