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From: magnus@THEP.LU.SE (Magnus Olsson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Dates for the different versions of FORTRAN?
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Date: 15 Aug 90 11:52:26 GMT
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Speaking of the various versions of Fortran:

The later versions of Fortran (IV, 66, 77) are reasonably downward
compatible with each other, even though there are some discrepancies,
such as the handling of a degenerate DO loop (DO 10 I=1,0 ...).

However, from what I've heard, Fortran I and II were quite different
from later versions in, for example, the syntax for I/O statements.

I've never used any of these old versions, or even come across a manual.
So could somoeone out there please say something about what these languages 
were like?


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