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From: ross@apollo.HP.COM (Mike Ross)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: fortran 8x and fortran-77
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Date: 22 Feb 90 20:17:00 GMT
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For all you heavy FORTRAN users out there, I have
a couple of survey type questions. Reply via e-mail, I will summarize
if there is enough interest.

1) Assuming that a reasonable implementation of
FORTRAN 8x is available for your machine/OS, would
you be likely to use it, say, in preference to your
present FORTRAN-77 compiler? 

2) Which of the new features in FORTRAN 8x do you 
feel you are likely to make the most use of? Which
features are most important to your work?

3) If a translation tool were available to convert
your FORTRAN programs from their present state (presumably
FORTRAN-77 with extensions) to FORTRAN 8x, would you be interested?
Would you use it? How much would you be willing to pay for such a tool? 

Thanks for your input. 
                            Mike Ross
                            HP/Apollo Languages