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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/16/2022 5:05 PM, gah4 wrote:
> On Friday, April 15, 2022 at 5:18:33 AM UTC-7, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> 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.


True.

s/are supposedly/could potentially be/w

Arne