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- From: ercolessi@uimrl3.mrl.uiuc.edu (furio ercolessi)
- Subject: Re: Dynamic Memory Allocation in FORTRAN, Question
- References: <Dec.20.02.22.20.1992.7312@spade.rutgers.edu> <BzL8tz.H5u@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec21.172931.15093@netcom.com>
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 19:40:52 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.172931.15093@netcom.com>, walt@netcom.com (Walt Brainerd) writes:
- >In article <BzL8tz.H5u@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, ercolessi@uimrl3.mrl.uiuc.edu (furio ercolessi) writes:
- |>> 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.
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- Ooops! Sorry. Then I misinterpreted a discussion here some weeks
- ago. I will always add the number, promised!
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- Furio Ercolessi
- Materials Research Laboratory | Intl School for Advanced Studies
- Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Trieste, Italy
- furio@uiuc.edu | furio@sissa.it
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