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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: F8X comments
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Date: Sat, 14-Nov-87 21:36:27 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 14 21:36:27 1987
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In article <422@uni2.bcm.tmc.edu> rick@svedberg.bcm.tmc.edu (Richard
H. Miller) writes:
>In summary, a standard language should NOT BE CHANGED in such a drastic 
>manner. Allow it to evolve, but do not change it into something different.

There is a simple solution: consider the suffix part of the language
name.  F66 is a different language from F77, which is different from
F8X.  If you want to run old F77 programs after the new standard is
out, make sure you buy F77 systems, not F8X systems.

You would not buy an Ada system to run old COBOL programs....
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