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From: gombo@tharr.UUCP (Alun Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Where can I find a Fortran style guide?
Message-ID: <2167@tharr.UUCP>
Date: 22 May 91 10:20:36 GMT
Reply-To: gombo@tharr.UUCP (Alun Jones)
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Hi.
I've reached the stage in my conversion of a large suite of Fortran that I
feel it would be useful to inform my bosses of where I feel their program is
'badly' written.  Although I don't have any syntax problems with their code,
there are one or two things that I feel are bad style - using too many
implicit variables, assuming variables are initialised to zero, mixing and
matching variable types in common blocks, that kind of thing.
Now, most compilers will quite happily accept these as valid, although I know
at least one is against ANSI standards.  But I'm fairly sure they're 'bad'
style.  Now, I can't really say that to my bosses without some convincing
arguments, so I'm looking for a Fortran programming style guide.

Where can I get one, please?

TIA.
Alun.
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