[Info-vax] [OT] Current students apparently can't read Fortran code...

[gah4]

On Friday, April 15, 2022 at 5:18:33 AM UTC-7, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

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> If you look at the .f files that are supposedly 77 then 
> it really just are old fixed format - the code are full of 
> 90 features. 

Tradition of Fortran compilers is that the .f extension is
for fixed form, and the .f90 extension free form, independent
of the actual standard that the program uses.

You can write Fortran 2018 code in fixed-form.