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From: Gary Scott <garylscott@sbcglobal.net>
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Subject: Re: Is there a way in Fortran to designate an integer value as
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Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2024 15:36:33 -0500
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On 10/4/2024 3:04 PM, 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.

Fortran does have a form of varying string...just not super convenient 
to use in the general case.