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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Is there a way in Fortran to designate an integer value as
 integer*8 ?
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2024 01:58:40 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 5 Oct 2024 19:39:31 -0500, Gary Scott wrote:

> 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.

How could it have been better without regular expressions?