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From: faustus@cad.BERKELEY.EDU (Wayne A. Christopher)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: What should be added to C
Message-ID: <532@cad.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Sun, 8-Jun-86 20:28:22 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun  8 20:28:22 1986
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In article <1550@mmintl.UUCP>, franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) writes:
> >The thing about F77 (and FIV vs FII) is that most of the features in
> >the F77 standard had already been implemented - or at least something
> >similar to them - in most compilers already.
> 
> This is not true.  The biggest change 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.

You mean that before 1977 there was no if statement in fortran?  Sounds like
a fun language to work with... :-)

	Wayne