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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: What should be added to C
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Date: Sat, 7-Jun-86 22:31:24 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun  7 22:31:24 1986
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> ... The biggest change [in F77] was the IF (...) THEN ... ENDIF
> construct.  I don't know of *any* compiler which supported this before the
> standard came out; certainly it was not common...

It was in almost every Fortran preprocessor in existence, of which there
were dozens.  There was a lot of coding experience using them.  For most
of its users, a preprocessor counts as part of the compiler.
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