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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: Sat, 5 Oct 2024 19:39:31 -0500
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On 10/5/2024 6:07 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Oct 2024 13:52:01 -0500, Gary Scott wrote:
> 
>> I really liked the flexibility of string/text processing of IBM's
>> DCF/Script/GML.  How that was powerful string handling.
> 
> As good as Perl?

vastly better, but it was specifically a text (document) processor, 
vastly different purpose.