Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!cmcl2!lanl!jlg From: jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: Is this kosher? Message-ID: <13386@lanl.gov> Date: 1 Feb 91 22:14:01 GMT References: Organization: Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, N.M. Lines: 12 From article , by u502sou@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Ignatios Souvatzis): > [...] > That's the BAD think about FORTRAN... most dangerous things are > 'forbidden' by the manuals, but most of them pass the compiler... It's > much fun to debug a program where you forgot a subroutine parameter... It's not Fortran! ALL ANSI defined languages allow implementation extensions. ALL of them leave the interpretation of non-conforming programs up to the discretion of the impementation. Actually, C is one of the worst offenders in this area. J. Giles