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Re: Fortran 9x: time for a decision
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Eric Siegerman |
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Re: Fortran 9x: time for a decision |
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Mon, 28 Oct 2002 18:58:41 -0500 |
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On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 10:13:20AM -0900, Kate Hedstrom wrote:
> > True. But what if someone comes up with a Fortran++?
>
> They have - it is called Fortran 2000 and includes exceptions and
> inheritance.
I was unclear. I meant "a language whose compiler is invoked by
'f++' or (literally) 'fxx'". In that case, one will want
FXX/FXXFLAGS to still be available.
> I can live with FORTRAN and FORTRANFLAGS with F77 and F77FLAGS for the
> moldy Fortran. In fact I don't really care what they are as long as
> autoconf doesn't give the appearance of having frozen Fortran support
> back in 1977.
:-)
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