[Info-vax] Fortran

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/6/18 10:02 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>> In article <pu9e97$dbh$1 at panix2.panix.com>, kludge at panix.com (Scott
>> Dorsey) writes:
>>
>>> Same problem.  These days it's normal practice to put the common block
>>> in a file and then INCLUDE it as needed.  This means every routine always
>>> has the same common block definitions.  This dramatically reduces the number
>>> of things that can go wrong, but unfortunately the case above is one of the
>>> big ones still left.
>>
>> Modules and INCLUDE were both introduced in Fortran90.  So, while the
>> above is perhaps a slight improvement, better would be a rewrite using
>> modules.
> 
> VMS Fortran has had INCLUDE for a long long time.  It was so great and
> people liked it so much that it later wound up in the f90 standard.
> --scott
> 

Pr1me had INSERT in both their Fortran and Fortran77 compilers
since at least the very early 80's.  I imagine others had likewise.

bill