Re: NEWBIE QUESTION

richard symonds wrote:
>
> I am new to this group and looking for a charter or description of what is
> welcome and not welcome here. My questions will be very specific, but
> probably very elementary, and this may not be the appropriate venue. I
> learned my FORTRAN a long time ago, but until recently have only used it in
> console mode and with very little more advanced than what I learned way back
> then.
>
> Is there a better place for me to participate?

No...this is the place for Fortran-related stuff...

> ...For example, today I
> realized that a "C" in column 1 is not recognized as a comment in F90. Had
> me baffled for about 10 minutes until I stumbled across the answer in an
> online manual.

That's not <quite> correct--it isn't exactly F90, it's free source form
as opposed to fixed source form although free source form was introduced
in F90. You can write F90/95-compliant Fortran in traditional fixed
format source form. (Although I think the free source form is much more
readable in general).
.

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