Robert Dewar wrote:
Valid programs is too narrow a set, you really do have to pay attention
to normal usage. I very well remember the Burroughs 5500 compiler, which
took advantage of the stack semantics allowed by the standard, but in
fact virtually all Fortran programs of the era assumed static allocation
since that's what every other compiler did. As a consequence the 5500
Fortran was completely useless, one factor that certainly caused
universities I was aassociated with to avoid this machine.
[ Sorry for the late reply ]
As we say on the committee: Quality of Implementation Issue.
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