Re: Programming language and IDE design

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From	"Steven G. Kargl" <sgk@REMOVEtroutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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Subject	Re: Programming language and IDE design
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> [Fortran through F77 potentially had to look arbitrarily far ahead to
> tell FORMAT statements from an assignment to an array called FORMAT.
> BTDT. But I would be surprised if any modern languages were that hard
> to lex. -John]

Fixed source form is supported by all Fortran standards (F77, F90, F95,
F2003, F2008) and it is still supported in the current draft of the next
revision to the Fortran standard.  So, I suppose you need to define
"modern langauges".

--
steve
["not Fortran" -John]

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Re: Programming language and IDE design Martin Ward <martin@gkc.org.uk> - 2013-11-16 15:55 +0000
  Re: Programming language and IDE design Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@aol.com> - 2013-11-16 19:48 +0100
  Re: Programming language and IDE design George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2013-11-18 19:02 -0500
    Re: Programming language and IDE design "Steven G. Kargl" <sgk@REMOVEtroutmask.apl.washington.edu> - 2013-11-19 15:36 +0000
    Re: Programming language and IDE design George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2013-11-19 12:41 -0500
      Re: Parsing Fortran, was Programming language and IDE design glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2013-11-19 20:18 +0000
        Re: Parsing Fortran, was Programming language and IDE design glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2013-11-21 21:22 +0000
    Re: Programming language and IDE design wclodius@earthlink.net (William Clodius) - 2013-11-22 18:27 -0700
    Re: Programming language and IDE design "robin" <robin51@dodo.com.au> - 2013-11-25 10:33 +1100
      Re: Programming language and IDE design Martin Ward <martin@gkc.org.uk> - 2013-12-03 15:15 +0000
        Re: Programming language and IDE design Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@aol.com> - 2013-12-05 03:35 +0100
    Re: Programming language and IDE design hu47121@usenet.kitty.sub.org (Hannah) - 2014-03-02 00:03 +0000
      Re: LL vs LR, was Programming language and IDE design Ivan Godard <ivan@ootbcomp.com> - 2014-03-01 20:31 -0800
        Re: LL vs LR, was Programming language and IDE design Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-02 18:41 +0000
      Re: Programming language and IDE design George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2014-03-02 12:21 -0500
  Re: Programming language and IDE design Jonathan Thornburg <jonathan@cobalt.astro.indiana.edu> - 2013-11-19 19:39 +0000

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