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You had a FORTRAN compiler that didn't have DO loops? I'm dubious.
by pklausler 3y ago
You had a FORTRAN compiler that didn't have DO loops? I'm dubious.
- shawn_w 3y agoFORTRAN IV (1962) predates DO, which if Wikipedia is to be trusted, was introduced in FORTRAN 66.
- pklausler 3y agoFORTRAN (no numbers!) had DO loops in the first release of the language. No subroutines, only statement functions, but there absolutely were DO loops! The ability of the compiler to perform what are now basic loop optimizations on them is what sold the users on automatic compilers.