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From: buckley@dalcs.UUCP (Bert Buckley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: (none)
Message-ID: <2998@dalcs.UUCP>
Date: 1 Sep 88 12:18:23 GMT
References: <651@<8052> <11800003@modcomp>
Reply-To: buckley@dalcs.UUCP (Bert Buckley)
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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In article <11800003@modcomp> joe@modcomp.UUCP writes:
>
>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.  

I do not believe that to be true at all. The proposals for the new source
form could be dropped entirely, and the rest of the proposals would stand.