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From: tholen@hale.ifa.hawaii.edu (Dave Tholen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: MS Fortran 5.1 info. wanted
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Date: 13 Jun 91 20:45:12 GMT
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Knut Alfredsen writes:

> A couple of weeks ago somebody posted an article about the new Microsoft
> Fortran 5.1. I am very interested in this compiler, so I hope that someone
> could send me more information.
>
> I would specially like to know about the Windows 3.0 feature which is
> included, and if the compiler supports any of the new Fortran 90 features.

Both Version 5.0 and 5.1 have Fortran 90 features, such as array syntax,
CASE, DO WHILE, ALLOCATABLE arrays, and new intrinsics like VERIFY, SCAN,
and LEN_TRIM.  NAMELIST and structures are supported, and you can access
command line arguments.

Version 5.1 mainly adds the Windows support, such as the ability to add
window titles, message boxes, and custom-sized child windows.  You can
view input and output in adjacent windows, cut and paste data, scroll
through earlier output, and so on, according to their brochure.  I'm not
a Windows user, however, so I don't know how extensive the support is.