[Info-vax] Fortran

[Bob Koehler]

In article <pu8mud$1ab$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
> On 12/5/2018 3:26 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> Fortran has had ideas which seemed good at the time but which have
>> not stood the test of time. The other one which comes immediately
>> to mind are common blocks whose definitions are repeated in more
>> than one place.
> 
> INCLUDE is a good thing.

   Agreed, but saldy some of us have had to work with compilers that
   didn't have INCLUDE, back when it was not part of the standard.  And
   the resulting COMMON block chaos as different programmers laid out
   the same data using different names convenient for them.

   Nevertheless, the code worked and didn't need to be broken by the
   next compiler update.