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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Is there a way in Fortran to designate an integer value as
 integer*8 ?
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2024 20:04:05 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 12:13:52 +0200, R Daneel Olivaw wrote:

> but not as friendly as
>        character*28 txthdr /'Text header, with a comma   ' /

With all these additions to Fortran, I keep wondering “when will they 
finish reinventing PL/I?”. Because at an early point in the development of 
PL/I, they were going to call it “FORTRAN VI”.

One PL/I feature still missing from Fortran is VARYING strings.