Re: Need Help: compiling old Fortran program

Förster vom Silberwald <chain_lube@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

(Scheme world is even more
dependent on specific compilers than Fortran).

It is quite possible to write Fortran code that does not depend on
specific compilers. Some of us here have done that for multiple decades.
The language does not have such dependence. Some users do. Some of us
here put quite a lot of work into trying to educate people about the
benefits of coding portably. In the end, it has very little to do with
languages, and a lot to do with users. Some languages do more than
others to facilitate or hinder portable coding, but that has never been
the real determining factor.

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