I don’t use Fortran regularly, or much at all, any more, so I’ll defer to someone who knows. But I think that after some point, the standards committee made a c

I don’t use Fortran regularly, or much at all, any more, so I’ll defer to someone who knows. But I think that after some point, the standards committee made a commitment to backwards compatibility, and these deprecated features actually still work, although people would be unlikely to use them in new code, because they are now considered bad practice.