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From: holtz@clan.UUCP (Neal Holtz)
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Subject: Re: Time for keyword parameters in prog. langs
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Date: Wed, 11-Apr-84 12:09:13 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 11 12:09:13 1984
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Organization: Systems Eng., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, Canada
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For those who might be interested, the next official Fortran (Fortran 8X)
will likely have keyword and positional paramters.  Don't hold your breath -
the ANSI standard is still several years away.  

Unfortunately, that Fortran might also have almost anything else that
anyone thought might be useful in a language, except rationality.  Will
make PL/1 look small and simple.

Neal Holtz
Dept. of Civil Eng., Carleton Univ., Ottawa.