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From: "Steven G. Kargl" <sgk@REMOVEtroutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Is there a way in Fortran to designate an integer value as
 integer*8 ?
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2024 20:25:56 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 04 Oct 2024 20:04:05 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> 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.

The above line of code in not standard conforming Fortran.

-- 
steve