[Info-vax] Fortran

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/5/2018 1:24 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> abrsvc  <dansabrservices at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Not so much of a problem when programs were on cards, but with terminals (and emulators), what is a TAB?  1 character or some depending on where you enter the TAB.  This is where many of the counts are wrong.
>>
>> I for one, am glad that the Hollerith style is going away.
> 
> It -went- away back in the 1970s.   Any code now running using format H is
> very, very, very old.
> 
> I am strongly against breaking existing software as much as possible, but
> if you have code that is THAT old, it's probably overdue for a walkthrough
> and clean up anyway.

Just to be clear.

They became obsolete in Fortran 77.

They were removed in Fortran 95.

Arne