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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: What should be added to C
Message-ID: <943@ttrdc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Jun-86 22:17:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: ttrdc.943
Posted: Mon Jun  9 22:17:36 1986
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In article <532@cad.BERKELEY.EDU>, faustus@cad.BERKELEY.EDU (Wayne A. Christopher) writes:
>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

Read the posting more carefully.  Fortran generally did not support

IF (logical_expression) THEN
statements
[ELSE IF (logical_expression) THEN
more statements
ELSE
yet more statements]
END IF

before the advent of Fortran-77.  It sure as heck DID support

IF (logical_expression) statement

(where "statement" was exceedingly likely to be a GOTO (-: )
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