From: "David Muxworthy" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, 19 May 2011 1:57 AM
> Myth 3 has "By official ruling of the ISO, the language name was
> changed to a proper noun, 'Fortran'". I thought it was a decision of
> WG5 - but no matter.
>
> Myth 6 has "Since FORTRAN 77, you could override the implicit typing
> rule by explicitly declaring the type of a data object ([ISO 1997],
> 5.1)". Type statements were in F66 (section 7.2.1.6); it was IMPLICIT
> that was introduced in F77 and, more usefully, IMPLICIT NONE in
> MIL-STD-1753 and hence in F90.
Type declarations have been available since at least 1966,
and probably much earlier.
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