Re: Declaration to get 8-bit (or 16-bit) integer?



On Jan 29, 9:03 pm, nos...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Richard Maine) wrote:

That is as close to original intent as I could come up with.That, however, sounds like a particular implementation - not "the
Fortran language". Those are two completely different subjects. You see
any hint of evidence that the intent of "the Fortran language" was to be
designed around that machine (or any other particular machine)? I don't.
I see rather strong evidence to the contrary.

The arithmetic IF is good evidence of Fortran being designed
for the IBM 704.

Bob Corbett

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