Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!modcomp!joe
From: joe@modcomp.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: (none)
Message-ID: <11800003@modcomp>
Date: 29 Aug 88 14:45:00 GMT
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Nf-From: modcomp.UUCP!joe    Aug 29 10:45:00 1988



Kurt Hirchert (hirchert @ uxe.cso.uiuc.edu) writes:

>All of FORTRAN 77 is contained in Fortran 8x, so the 77-to-8x translator is
>a straight copy program!

Well, yes.  My understanding is that most of the new features of 8x are
tied to the "new source form", which is incompatible with the existing
source form.  It does not appear possible for a compiler to automatically
and reliably detect which source form is in use.  A language which has to
resort to compile-time options to determine which form the input is in is
not, in my opinion, one language - it is two languages masquerading under
the same name.
--
Joe Korty                    "flames, flames, go away
uunet!modcomp!joe            come back again, some other day"

PS: I am reposting this.  The origional apparently didn't reach the net.