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| Michael Metcalf 2006-09-29, 7:01 pm |
| As promised, I have now completely rewritten the Fortran language features
article in Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran_language_features. By mischance, I
changed this anonymously, having neglected to log in first. I invite comment
and improvements. (Also, I wish to attach a comment to the 'History' page,
but that doesn't appear to work. Can someone advise me?)
PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING: In principle, I would have preferred to have
expanded my article on Fortran in Volume 2 of "Encyclopedia of Information
Systems", Academic Press, 2003. However, that was not possible for reasons
of copyright, and so I have constructed the article from an existing
tutorial on Fortran 90 for Fortran 77 programmers, and added Fortran 77 and
95 features as necessary. Less satisfactory, but better than what was
already there.
Regards,
Mike Metcalf
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| Craig Powers 2006-09-29, 7:01 pm |
| Michael Metcalf wrote:
> As promised, I have now completely rewritten the Fortran language features
> article in Wikipedia:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran_language_features. By mischance, I
> changed this anonymously, having neglected to log in first. I invite comment
> and improvements. (Also, I wish to attach a comment to the 'History' page,
> but that doesn't appear to work. Can someone advise me?)
What is the "sl" in this sentence intended to mean?
The simple <tt>GO TO</tt> ''sl'' exists, but should be avoided.
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| James Giles 2006-09-29, 7:01 pm |
| Craig Powers wrote:
> Michael Metcalf wrote:
>
> What is the "sl" in this sentence intended to mean?
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> The simple <tt>GO TO</tt> ''sl'' exists, but should be avoided.
A guess would be "statement label". However, a description
of a language probably shouldn't editorialize about the desirability
of features.
--
J. Giles
"I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software
design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously
no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated
that there are no obvious deficiencies." -- C. A. R. Hoare
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| Herman D. Knoble 2006-09-29, 7:01 pm |
| I have a suggestion on this labor of love:
change the case of sl of GO TO to sl to SL (capital letters)
so it isn't  by string value, s1, used elseware in this article.
This isn't the first time someone the number 1 with the lower
case L, l.
Skip
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:16:48 -0400, Craig Powers <enigma@hal-pc.org> wrote:
-|Michael Metcalf wrote:
-|> As promised, I have now completely rewritten the Fortran language features
-|> article in Wikipedia:
-|> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran_language_features. By mischance, I
-|> changed this anonymously, having neglected to log in first. I invite comment
-|> and improvements. (Also, I wish to attach a comment to the 'History' page,
-|> but that doesn't appear to work. Can someone advise me?)
-|
-|What is the "sl" in this sentence intended to mean?
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-| The simple <tt>GO TO</tt> ''sl'' exists, but should be avoided.
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| Michael Metcalf 2006-09-29, 7:01 pm |
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"Craig Powers" <enigma@hal-pc.org> wrote in message
news:451d54ff$0$63824$a726171b@news.hal-pc.org...
> Michael Metcalf wrote:
>
> What is the "sl" in this sentence intended to mean?
>
> The simple <tt>GO TO</tt> ''sl'' exists, but should be avoided.
Some kind person has already fixed this (and a number of typos too).
Regards,
Mike Metcalf
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| Craig Powers 2006-09-29, 7:01 pm |
| Michael Metcalf wrote:
> "Craig Powers" <enigma@hal-pc.org> wrote in message
> news:451d54ff$0$63824$a726171b@news.hal-pc.org...
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> Some kind person has already fixed this (and a number of typos too).
I got the spelling stuff.
Addressing another comment in follow-up, I'll tweak that so it's a
little more POV-neutral.
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| Elijah Cardon 2006-10-02, 4:04 am |
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"Michael Metcalf" <michaelmetcalf@compuserve.com> wrote in message
news:JXaTg.3$tN.0@trndny06...
> As promised, I have now completely rewritten the Fortran language features
> article in Wikipedia:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran_language_features. By mischance, I
> changed this anonymously, having neglected to log in first. I invite
> comment and improvements. (Also, I wish to attach a comment to the
> 'History' page, but that doesn't appear to work. Can someone advise me?)
>
> PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING: In principle, I would have preferred to have
> expanded my article on Fortran in Volume 2 of "Encyclopedia of Information
> Systems", Academic Press, 2003. However, that was not possible for reasons
> of copyright, and so I have constructed the article from an existing
> tutorial on Fortran 90 for Fortran 77 programmers, and added Fortran 77
> and 95 features as necessary. Less satisfactory, but better than what was
> already there.
I look at your stuff; I just wanted to wait to talk about it till when I
knew syntax from a hole in the ground. EC
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