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  • Re: Sorry re history of Fortran, good post on LinkedIn

    From John Levine@3:633/10 to All on Sunday, February 01, 2026 02:43:52
    According to Niocl s P˘l Caile n de Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com>:
    Dear oh dear. Sorry. Whatever comp.compilers post I am thinking of, I
    read it a long time ago and I do not remember it intimately, and it is
    about versions of FORTRAN from before I became born, or . . . I am
    imagining it.

    Fortran 66 was the first Fortran standard and it largely codified what
    the existing IBM FORTRAN compilers did so, nope.

    What happened to the comp.compilers mbox archives? Happy New Year!
    (S. HTTP://Gloucester.Insomnia247.NL/ fuer Kontaktdaten!)

    They're still on my server but since nobody had looked at them for years,
    I turned off FTP.


    --
    Regards,
    John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
    Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.10
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From OrangeFish@3:633/10 to All on Sunday, February 01, 2026 18:00:15
    On 2026-01-31 21:43, John Levine wrote (in part):
    What happened to the comp.compilers mbox archives? Happy New Year!
    (S. HTTP://Gloucester.Insomnia247.NL/ fuer Kontaktdaten!)

    They're still on my server but since nobody had looked at them for years,
    I turned off FTP.

    I downloaded them eons ago. (I still have the paper copy that you sold
    quite ago.)


    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.10
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)