Re: Programming language and IDE design

"Steven G. Kargl" <sgk@REMOVEtroutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Tue, 19 Nov 2013 15:36:35 +0000 (UTC)

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From: "Steven G. Kargl" <sgk@REMOVEtroutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 15:36:35 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
References: 13-11-016 13-11-018
Keywords: Fortran, parse, comment
Posted-Date: 19 Nov 2013 13:22:27 EST

> [Fortran through F77 potentially had to look arbitrarily far ahead to
> tell FORMAT statements from an assignment to an array called FORMAT.
> BTDT. But I would be surprised if any modern languages were that hard
> to lex. -John]


Fixed source form is supported by all Fortran standards (F77, F90, F95,
F2003, F2008) and it is still supported in the current draft of the next
revision to the Fortran standard. So, I suppose you need to define
"modern langauges".


--
steve
["not Fortran" -John]

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