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- From: walt@netcom.com (Walt Brainerd)
- Subject: Re: Dynamic Memory Allocation in FORTRAN, Question
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.172931.15093@netcom.com>
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- References: <Dec.20.02.22.20.1992.7312@spade.rutgers.edu> <BzL8tz.H5u@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:29:31 GMT
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- In article <BzL8tz.H5u@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, ercolessi@uimrl3.mrl.uiuc.edu (furio ercolessi) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec20.233539.4905@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>, shenkin@still3.chem.columbia.edu (Peter
- > Shenkin) writes:
- > |>In article <Dec.20.02.22.20.1992.7312@spade.rutgers.edu>
- > |> xiong@spade.rutgers.edu (Xiong) writes:
- > |>>Hi, I am wondering if it is possible to allocate memory dynomically in
- > |>>FORTRAN as in C?
- > |>
- > |>No.
- >
- > We are a bit negative, aren't we? :-)
- >
- > Well, if you stick to the FORTRAN standard the answer is no
- > [of course, Fortran is another story].
-
- THE programming language Fortran has sometimes been written
- "Fortran" (the way it appeared in the first IBM manuual for
- the IBM 704) and sometimes been written "FORTRAN". There has
- been a trend to adopt "Fortran" since about 1978, just after
- the Fortran 77 standard came out. The point is that the
- way of writing the word does NOT indicate the version.
- Saying that standard FORTRAN does not have dynmaic storage
- allocation, but standard Fortran does is very confusing.
-
- Fortran 77 is still an American standard, but for the rest
- of the world, there is only one standard, Fortran 90, and
- of course it does have dynamic storage allocation.
-
- Fortran 77 is still an American standard, but for the rest
- of the world, there is only one standard, Fortran 90, and
- of course it does have dynamic storage allocation.
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