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I'm still annoyed that Microsoft FORTRAN-80 is an implementation of FORTRAN IV and FORTRAN-66, and not of FORTRAN-77.
Late versions of Microsoft FORTRAN-80 did have the IMPLICIT NONE, which wasn't standardized until MIL-STD-1753, which extended FORTRAN-77.
#fortran #fortraniv #fortran66 #fortran77 #microsoft #fortran80
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Does #programming #language need #pointer? #Fortran66 did not use pointer and yet it was one of the most powerful programming languages faster than #C in the 80s. What makes Fortran so powerful? Exactly because it did not use pointer. Instead, Fortran has #Array and #Matrix as it primitive data types. Memory is naturally arranged as a contiguous chunk, just like an #array. A #matrix is just an array indexed differently in the memory. Sunya is written using #Fortran and Assembly by bootstrapping.
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Today at work I castigated my boss for writing a #DOS #batch file, and for writing it in the style of #FORTRAN66. I was not amused. #FORTRAN