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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
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Subject: Re: want flint (?)
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> While I am quite aware that "portable fortran" is an oxymoron of
> sorts, has anyone done work in this area.  Something like an
> f77 version of "lint" would be a great help, even if it spoke
> just one dialect. 

While most compilers will compile a majority of standard code,
especially if it has passed 'pfort', an ex-professor of mine
did a study of Fortran implementations in the late 60's-early 70's
time frame.  He found that of some reasonable number of compilers
sampled, there were  n o   s t a t e m e n t s  that were the same
in all of them!  Only one statement came close -- minor mods to
two compilers would make the CONTINUE statement the same across the
board.

And people complain about minor differences in C and UNIX!

;-)

Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{ARPA,UUCP}