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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: F8X comments
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Date: Wed, 11-Nov-87 11:07:00 EST
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Nov 11 10:07:00 1987


Considering the enormous number of comments and flames about ANSI C in
comp.lang.c, I am surprised to see no flames here about F8X. I'd like to
see comp.lang.fortran as full of comments. I like some features about
the draft (e.g. more control structures), but consider most of the changes
a horrible perversion of Fortran, particularly the list of "deprecated
features". It also seems to lack obvious extensions which have been around
for years, for example, allowing both numbers and characters in the same common
block.

Doug McDonald