Re: Immutability of computer languages nee History of French

From: *** T. Winter (***.Winter_at_cwi.nl)
Date: 09/24/04


Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 22:45:58 GMT

In article <ugk8l09rnrjejbai4d42g7pmmp1ng6gaci@4ax.com> Mxsmanic <mxsmanic@hotmail.com> writes:
> Jacques Guy writes:
>
> > "Yet even with these dramatic enhancements to previous
> > versions of Fortran, an exceptionally high degree of backward
> > compatibility is maintained."
> > (http://www.sali.freeservers.com/engineering/fortran.html)
>
> The old FORTRAN stuff I've compiled under new compilers has compiled
> clean.

You never tried stuff from before Fortran IV.

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