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From: R Daneel Olivaw <Danny@hyperspace.vogon.gov>
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Subject: Re: Is there a way in Fortran to designate an integer value as
 integer*8 ?
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2024 11:31:22 +0200
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Steven G. Kargl wrote:
> 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.
> 

I have not fed it through the compiler I used to use (mainframe, and I 
no longer have access) but that compiler conformed to Fortran77 to the 
extent they did not even offer integer*8.
They did have some local extensions (statement functions) but they were 
clearly marked as non-standard in the manuals.