[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Richard B. Gilbert <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote:
(snip)
 
> In Fortran you learned to live without dynamic memory allocation!  It 
> may be available in Fortran *now* but back in 1969--1994 memory 
> allocation in Fortran was static.  For most of that period, your input 
> was via 80 column punched cards.

It was added in Fortran 90.  I would not be surprised if compilers
supporting it didn't exist by 1994.  Compilers supporting all the
features of Fortran 2003 are still not available.
 
> I got my first VAX in 1984 and after that I didn't use punched cards 
> that much.  1994 was about the time I last did any serious programming 
> in Fortran; my employers didn't use it so it wasn't available  to me.

I haven't looked at the VMS Fortran compilers lately.  Any support
for Fortran 2003?  Fortran 90 or 95?

-- glen