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From: smryan@garth.UUCP (s m ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Bogosity in Gould FORTRAN?
Summary: There is not a hole in the standard.
Message-ID: <2820@garth.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 89 21:15:13 GMT
References: <7863@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <76@unmvax.unm.edu>
Reply-To: smryan@garth.UUCP (s m ryan)
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On CDC NOS, jobs have a structure like

	compile-a-program
	run-the-program
		-file-separator-
	source
	  program
	    text
		-file-separator-
	input
	  for
	    the
	      program

All of this is a single file called INPUT. On openning INPUT, the default is
not to reposition it so that it starts after the second file-separator. If files
were always rewound at open, the program would begin reading the control
statements instead of the data.

The point being, not all of the world is a Unix. A language should be as
independent of the environment as possible so that is available in many
different environments as possible.
-- 
16. `The wealth I lose becomes the bane           Steven Ryan: ingr!garth!smryan
of all who own or seek in vain.                    2400 Geng Road, Palo Alto, CA
It brings but death to Hreithmar's kin     Here have some grub. O they very fine
and joy of wealth no man shall win.'     baby worms cooked in the holy corn oil.