Fortran Versions (was JB Passes)

[Courtney, Lee]

> old programs have to be re-written since they don't support 
> things like sence switches for example.

I suspect because the concept of a sense switch on a contemporary
machine is moot - there are no physical switches to toggle to signal a
change in the execution of a program.

How did newer versions of the language handle deprecation of the sense
switch - error, warning, ignore?

Lee Courtney


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> Chuck Guzis wrote:
> 
> 
> > I rather liked Basic FORTRAN IV (that's what it was called).  A 
> > minimal functional subset; no logical IFs, ASSIGNed GOTOs, object-
> > time FORMAT or named COMMON.    Just a handful of 
> statements that you 
> > could pretty much compile and run anywhere.
> 
> I rather liked full blown FORTRAN IV. I have been looking at 
> the PDP8 Fortran IV version and all things considered that 
> was a powerful machine for its price range in the 1970's.
> All this talk of Fortran 77, 90 make fortran a more modern 
> langage but it seems to me they lost something in that the 
> old programs have to be re-written since they don't support 
> things like sence switches for example.
> 
> > Cheers,
> > Chuck
> 
> 
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