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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: Delays for implementations of Fortran features
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 15:20:01 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2014-01-18, Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org> wrote:
> On 18th January 2014, Simon Clubley sent:
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> Perhaps you do not find it remarkable that during 2014 people compile
> Fortran codes (which are not in FORTRAN 77) with compilers which fully
> support neither F2003 nor F2008.

So to translate that into Ada, are you saying that people should only be
using the very latest Ada revisions and hence only the latest compilers ?

If so, that's so out of touch with reality I don't know where to begin.

Simon.

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