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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Is there a way in Fortran to designate an integer value as
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Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2024 05:46:58 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 3 Oct 2024 23:44:24 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote:

> I started writing Fortran IV in 1975.  Been down a lot of roads since
> then.  I've written software in Fortran IV and 77, Pascal, C, C++, Curl,
> etc.  They are all running together now, I am getting old.

You mean “Perl” (the language) instead of “Curl” (which is just a download 
tool)?

No Lisp-type languages? Some of them can do your head in. Assembler? SQL? 
POSIX shells? JavaScript? My favourite, Python?

Some cool stuff in modern Fortran: free-form layout, with no more column 
numbers! Format strings can come from expressions within the I/O 
statement, so there is no more need for statement numbers at all. Types 
can have a limited form of parameterization, even allowing for function 
overloading. There are structured types, even object orientation.