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From: buckley@dalcs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: F8X is not Fortran
Message-ID: <2713@dalcs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Nov-87 07:51:55 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 17 07:51:55 1987
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Reply-To: buckley@dalcs.UUCP (Bert Buckley)
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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In article <757@softg.UUCP> guerri@softg.UUCP (Ernesto Guerrieri) writes:
>From the comments that I see circulate, F8X will not be upward
>compatible.  This will cause a great many programs to not work
>with an F8X compiler.  This seems to be counter-productive! If
>we are designing a new (and unrelated language), let's call it
>something different than Fortran, because in reality it will
>not be Fortran (at least in my mind).

Fortran  8X  ** IS ** Fortran.

Probably the single mostly closely followed guideline within
the X3J3 committee is that Fortran8x must be upwardly compatible
with Fortran 77.  All Fortran 77 programs will run.
.