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From: wyant@eplrx7.UUCP (Pat Wyant)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: FORTRAN 8X discussion
Summary: PL/1 as a superset for FORTRAN 8X
Message-ID: <573@eplrx7.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 88 17:45:05 GMT
References: <3885@xanth.cs.odu.edu> <137400001@mic>
Organization: E.I. DuPont Co. Engineering Physics Lab
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In article <137400001@mic>, d25001@mic.UUCP writes:
>                       ...Are you suggesting that if in the early 1960's
> IBM had continued in its alledged intent to market as "FORTRAN VI" the
> language that we know as "PL/I", we would all be happily programming in
> PL/I?  
>
> Carrington Dixon

  Unfortunately, I thought of suggesting the consideration of a scientific/
engineering subset of PL/1 (G subset?) as a prototype for an enhanced FORTRAN
(FORTRAN 8X ?) rather than C.  I found that PL/1 had many nice extensions which
I liked as a FORTRAN based programmer (compared to FORTRAN IV, which is what I
had available at the time).  Is the FORTRAN 8X committee trying to model the
new FORTRAN after some combination of Ada and C?

  If I wanted Ada, I'd consider Modula 2!


                                              Patrick Wyant
                                              Engineering Physics Lab
                                              E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.
                                              Wilmington, DE (USA)