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From: acliu@skat.usc.edu (Alejandro Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Fortran 8x wish list
Summary: Change to C
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Date: 22 May 89 03:58:30 GMT
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In article <1509@uw-nsr.UUCP> larryw@nsr.bioeng.washington.edu (Larry Weissman 5-2011) writes:
>The Fortran77 standard went a long way toward making it possible to port
>and maintain code across a variety of architectures. It may be a bit late,
>but here is my wish list for Fortran8x.  It consists of things which are
>difficult to do portably because they are not dealt with in the '77 standard.
>
>Please keep in mind that I have not seen the proposed '8x standard.
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Hmm...Seems to me that you have been programming in C and just switched to
Fortran (Or the other way around?).   The only things you need to ask for
is for recursion, stdio, printf...(All sorts of C stuff...)



 
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