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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that
Date: 20 Nov 2024 04:46:52 GMT
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On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 02:33:52 -0000 (UTC), root wrote:

> ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.misc.] Lawrence D'Oliveiro
> <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>
>> If Fortran can be a ???junk language??? by your definition, then so can
>> any language.
> 
> It wasn't Fortran that changed, it was the CDC compiler.

Was it nonconforming or prior to the ANSI standard? Over the years gcc has 
become pickier about practices that weren't very good to start with like 
assuming functions return an int unless otherwise specified or declaring 
variables in header files.