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From: acsls@jetson.uh.edu (Eddie A. McCreary)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: FORTRAN-4 question
Message-ID: <9123.2809a2c5@jetson.uh.edu>
Date: 15 Apr 91 18:55:32 GMT
References: <9093.2802d2f5@jetson.uh.edu> <5217@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> <21132@lanl.gov> <91102.234604KENCB@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
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In article <91102.234604KENCB@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>, KENCB@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU writes:
> In article <21132@lanl.gov>, jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles) says:
>>
>>Ampersand is not even in the Fortran standard character set!  The
>>Fortran character set consists of 26 letters, 10 digits, the blank,
>>and the following: [=+-*/(),.$':].  (not counting the square brackets.)
>>Fortran 90 uses the ampersand for statement continuation in the Free
>>Form source syntax.
> 
> 
> But the original poster *did* say this was Fortran 4, not Fortran 77.

That's me.
> And he *didn't* say the code was STANDARD, only that it ran on another
> machine...  Lastly, the ampersand alternate-return syntax was used
> in IBM's Fortran HX, an extended/enhanced Fortran 4 which only this past
> year finally met its demise when IBM announced it would no longer support
> the product.    BTW: while IBM's VS FORTRAN (77) does *not* support the &,
> VAX Fortran does, no doubt in deference to the earlier IBM Fortran syntax :-)
> 
It was written many, many years ago by a gentleman with the USGS.  One
problem was that the user did not know what the original platform was.
Many thanks to all the people who sent replies.  I tried to send thank you's
to you all, if I didn't get one to you, sorry, but there were quite a few.

>                                  Ken
>          ...and they are mine, not SLAC's, Stanford's, nor the DOE's..."
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