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From: poser@csli.Stanford.EDU (Bill Poser)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: a style question
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Date: 5 Oct 90 21:37:40 GMT
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Reply-To: poser@csli.stanford.edu (Bill Poser)
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Jim Giles says that "Fortran" allows specification of array bounds.
That depends on what you mean by "Fortran". That is definitely not
true of the classic Fortran that we know and hate.
Fortran 77 adopted many features of more advanced languages,
and Fortran 90 is going farther still. Fortran is a moving target
because each standardization introduces what in other contexts
would be considered a new language. Compare the relatively small
differences between Pascal and Modula-2 to the huge changes that
have been made in "Fortran".