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From: glen herrmannsfeldt on 9 Jun 2010 17:19
Steve Lionel <steve.lionel(a)intel.invalid> wrote:
(snip, I wrote)

>> I believe that PARAMETER originated from DEC, but with a syntax
>> different from that added to the standard.

> Sort of. DEC implemented what was in a late draft of the FORTRAN 77
> standard, but this syntax got changed before the final standard was
> published, so we supported both versions (and still do.)

The IBM Fortran IV compilers didn't have it. I believe I knew
it in the DEC Fortran IV compilers, but it wasn't until 1976
that I used them, so getting close to Fortran 77 time.
(Specifically, Fortran-10 in about 1976.) I usually didn't
use it, though.

-- glen

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