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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Character aliases are Satanic exten
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Date: 15 May 89 12:44:00 GMT
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>        I am converting a set of programs containing a total of about
>60,000 line of "standard" fortran code written for a VAX computer.  The
>following is typical of several hundred diagnostics I have encountered:

>      DOUBLE PRECISION   NAME,NAMA,JTYPM,ISPEC
>      DATA   IDNA,IRNA,ISPEC/4HD   ,4HR   ,8H$SPECIAL /


This is LEGAL FORTRAN. FORTRAN 66 and earlier, to be sure, but
legal nevertheless. I would be rather distressed if a compiler I
was considering buying would not compile it. I do not lightly
tolerate changes that break legal programs. Note the big flap over
proposals in Fortran 8x to POSSIBLY, maybe just CONSIDER deleting some
things in the far distant future (YES, NOT deleting them in Fortran
8x itself! And, this proposal was removed in the latest draft - but the memory
remains.)

Doug McDonald