Re: a cute program

glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> PRINT was in Fortran I and Fortran II.  It was in Fortran IV for back
> compatibility.  (Format statement number required.)  It seems not to
> be in Fortran 66, which otherwise is fairly close to Fortran IV.

Odd. I hadn't recalled that. I went to find the citation in f66 to show
that it was there... but not only could I not find it, I did find
mention in the appendix about its removal (the removal of PRINT - not of
an appendix :-)). The appendix doesn't specifically say PRINT, but the
general description pretty clearly is referring to PRINT, among others.
The appendix mentions removing forms that are specific to particular
units and making the I/O more consistent across units. Seems like f77
(which reintroduced PRINT) was a step backwards in such consistency.

You just made me drag out my f77 standard to check that. I was *SURE*
that PRINT was in f77, but I've been wrong before about things I was
sure of, and you have me wondering on this one. Yep, PRINT is there -
but only in the full language - not in the subset.

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