[Discuss] FORTRAN -> ???

[feenberg at nber.org (Daniel Feenberg)]

On Mon, 23 Jan 2012, Jay Kramer wrote:

>  Excuse me if this is a stupid question given the email chain.  Is it
> still possible to compile Fortran IV?   Will it run on linux?  I wrote a
> program in FORTRAN IV that uses overlays but other than that is straight
> forward code.

You should try it. I don't recall anything significant that was taken 
away, and the Wikipedia entry for Fortran only mentions Hollerith fields 
and the extended range of a do loop. Fortran is highly backwards 
compatible.

dan feenberg

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