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On 9/1/2023 11:16 AM, Thomas Koenig wrote:
> Clive Page <
usenet@page2.eu> schrieb:
>> That is absolutely right. But what might be worth saying is that
>> traditionally Fortran Standards have resolutely refused to specify
>> the precision of arithmetic or the number of bits of storage.
>> Almost since the start one could use REAL or DOUBLE PRECISION
>> types, the latter now deprecated of course, but without being able
>> to specify what they meant until fairly recently with functions
>> like SELECTED_REAL_KIND.
>
> "Fairly recently" meaning 1991, the year that Fortran 90 came out.
> It`s only been a bit more than 30 years.
>
> By comparision, Java was released in 1996.
1965 seems fairly recent to me, I remember tooling around in grandpas
1956 pontiac star chief :)
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