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From: khb%chiba@Sun.COM (Keith Bierman - Sun Tactical Engineering)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Stone Knives And Bear Skins (was Re: FORTRAN Lament)
Keywords: FORTRAN,dynamic-arrays,PL/I
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Date: 14 Jan 89 00:36:43 GMT
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In article <2401@garth.UUCP> phipps@garth.UUCP (Clay Phipps) writes:
>
>Time on the order of a decade elapsed between the 1st release of PL/I
>and completion of the FORTRAN 77 standard.  Ask the FORTRAN committee
>why the features you wanted aren't *already* a part of the language.

Most vendors DO support dynamic memory in one way or another. Fortran
88 (the WG5 document, and the current ansi draft) has it as part of
the evolved language.




Keith H. Bierman
It's Not My Fault ---- I Voted for Bill & Opus