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From: serafini@nas.nasa.gov (David B. Serafini)
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Subject: Re: CM Fortran
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Date: 21 Dec 90 21:35:51 GMT
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In article <12381@hubcap.clemson.edu> argosy!ian@decwrl.dec.com (Ian L. Kaplan) writes:
>  The statement that CM Fortran is a dialect that no one else uses is
>untrue.  [...]
>I have also
>heard that Cray will be bringing out a Fortran compiler with Fortan 90
>extensions.  

CFT77 has had a subset of the Fortran 90 array syntax for quite a while now,
at least a couple of years.  It hasn't caught on much, (to my knowledge)
probably because of the portability problems it creates.  The Cray Fortran
preprocessor, fpp, now can put out do-loop based code when given array code,
so portability is less of a concern now. 

>                        Ian Kaplan
>			ian@maspar.com
>			argosy!ian@decwrl.dec.com
>			
>These words are mine, not MasPar's.

David Serafini, Rose Engineering & Research at NASA/Ames Research Center
serafini@amelia.nas.nasa.gov      <standard disclaimers apply>

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