As of revision 12727 all reference to Fortran 77 in our source tree
has been removed (except for historical records such as change log
files) as discussed previously here. This is quite a historical moment
for PLplot since that software was originally written by Sze Tan of
the University of Auckland in Fortran 77 back in 1986!

So Fortran 77 is dead; long live Fortran 95!

This was an intrusive change with 41 files deleted or edited.  I took
the opportunity to simplify our build system as much as was allowed by
this change. Furthermore, I substantially revised our Fortran DocBook
documentation to get rid of all references to Fortran 77.

So far I have only tested this change with the test_noninteractive and
validate targets for the build tree on Linux.  I plan to do more
comprehensive testing of this and other recent Tcl and friends changes
shortly on Linux using scripts/comprehensive_test.sh.

To everybody here with an interest in Fortran (especially Arjen) --
please give Fortran a thorough testing on all platforms accessible to
you to make sure I didn't remove anything essential.

Alan
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Alan W. Irwin

Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state
implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time
Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting
software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project
(unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net);
and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net).
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Linux-powered Science
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