According to Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester snipped-for-privacy@Taf.com:
>>I want to quote an old comp.compilers post by its moderator about how
>>FORTRAN programmers are not bothered to consult the FORTRAN standard
>>(circa FORTRAN-66) so they insist that they know FORTRAN when they do
>>not, so a new FORTRAN standard (circa FORTRAN-77) made a
>>backwards-incompatible change to accept this wrong belief of what
>>FORTRAN really is. Alas searching for it takes too long (the 3 search
>>options offered by
>
>I'm pretty sure I didn't say that. Possibly someone else did but I don't
>recall that either. In fact F77 tried hard to stay compatible with F66 and
>the few incompatibilities were well documented and had good rationales.
In 1990 I led a project with Shell. All calculations were still required to use FORTRAN IV. Because there was substantial graphics involved we got dispensation to use c on VMS. (Using transputers, also occam was allowed.) Compatibility was a priority.
John Levine, snipped-for-privacy@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
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