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True, but for FORTRAN maybe a month. FORTRAN IV/77 has some statements that IIRC correctly have or will be removed from the newer fortran and that I think no o
by jmclnx 4y ago
True, but for FORTRAN maybe a month.
FORTRAN IV/77 has some statements that IIRC correctly have or will be removed from the newer fortran and that I think no other language has. Things like computational gotos, and a few others I have forgotten. Those could cause a bit of confusion with people looking at this old code on HPC.
Unlike COBOL, at least moving from FORTRAN you will not need to deal with rounding issues on floats.
- hilbert42 4y ago"FORTRAN IV/77 has some statements that IIRC correctly have or will be removed from the newer fortran" Right, importantly GOTO. The question I've puzzled over for some while is how much legacy (unmodified) FORTRAN IV/77 applications/libraries still exist and are in regular use—and whether porting this old code to later Fortran or other languages remains a significant problem. My interest stems from the fact my first language was FORTRAN IV.