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From: naparst@cartan.Berkeley.EDU (Harold Naparst)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Explain 8x completely!
Message-ID: <1529@cartan.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 28 Jan 88 20:21:21 GMT
Reply-To: naparst@cartan.Berkeley.EDU (Harold Naparst)
Organization: Math Dept. UCB
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We have had some nice flames against Fortran 8x now.  There was even a
sample letter on this newsgroup.  That was nice.  I want complete information.
Assume that I am not going to buy the standard for $50 or the other little
explanations.  Could someone explain all the changes concisely, please?  Just
a couple of sentences for each change.  Don't tell me about deprecated features.
Just the new statements.  Then I can write my letter to X3.

Personally, all I want for Fortran 8x is:  Repeat, while, include, and 
dynamic memory memory allocation (which I suppose means pointers).  I plan
to tell X3 this, but I want to kill the other changes eloquently.  So please
post a little description of each change.

Harold Naparst
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