Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!peer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED!nerds-end From: "Steven G. Kargl" Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: Programming language and IDE design Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 15:36:35 +0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 13 Sender: johnl@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <13-11-020@comp.compilers> References: <13-11-016@comp.compilers> <13-11-018@comp.compilers> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.iecc.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: leila.iecc.com 1384885347 55146 64.57.183.58 (19 Nov 2013 18:22:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@iecc.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 18:22:27 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: Fortran, parse, comment Posted-Date: 19 Nov 2013 13:22:27 EST X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com X-Received-Bytes: 1606 X-Received-Body-CRC: 3292406596 Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:1044 > [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]