Re: Running a fortran programm under Windows XP

Richard E Maine wrote:
> In article <d74l9m$q1$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Rich Townsend <rhdt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>>beliavsky@xxxxxxx wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Btw the spelling is "program" not "programm".
>>
>>Rubbish, it's "programme".
>
>
> I used to think it amusing to start my Fortran programs with a statement
> like
>
> programme main
>
> Worked find in fixed source form. :-)

Are you sure it didn't crash probes into Venus?

>
> But later (by many years), some of my British acquaintances told me that
> this spelling wasn't actually correct for the use of the word as applied
> to a computer program. :-(
>

Indeed. Regrettably, nobody has informed the BBC of this yet....
.

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