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> I'd say that the modern Fortran is almost completely backwards compatible with legacy FORTRAN, as far back as FORTRAN IV (predecessor to FORTRAN 77). That's
by danso 8y ago
> I'd say that the modern Fortran is almost completely backwards compatible with legacy FORTRAN, as far back as FORTRAN IV (predecessor to FORTRAN 77).
That's very impressive! I assumed the compatibility difference was akin to what Perl 6 is to Perl 5- -- that is, not compatible at all.
- gus_massa 8y agoThe rules for the lines formatting are different, but lucky you can write code in the "intersection format" that can be read by both http://fortranwiki.org/fortran/show/Continuation+lines http://fortranwiki.org/fortran/show/Continuation+lines If useful if your coworkers are stuck to a old semi unknown machine and want to mix the new code with the old code and run it there too.