[Beowulf] g77 limits...

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

The ENDDO construct was added at the request of CDC in their FORTRAN-5 
code extensions.  HP also incorporated it in their FORTRAN-5 code.  It 
was burned in playdoh in Fortran77, as an optional construct parallel 
and "more readable" than a do/continue construct.

The index labels in 73-80 were available when using the Model 029 drums 
if you had the drum programming card appropriately set up, or for those 
who're really old, you virtually always got them when you created a deck 
using IEBPRINTPUNCH.  Indices were not mandatory, nor necessarily used 
extensively for decks of only a couple of hundred cards, but some of us 
learned the hard way that it was easier to use 'em than to try to 
reconstruct the whole program after that box of cards was thrown akilter 
when the campus bus hit you, your bicycle, and the card box strapped on 
the rack on the bike... And, yes, I spent a night reordering such a box, 
in the student health center as an inpatient.

And I thought I'd slept through those meetings!

gerry

Robert G. Brown wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Toon Moene wrote:
> 
>> I wrote:
>>
>>>       SUBROUTINE SUB(A, N)
>>>       DIMENSION A(N)
>>>       DO I = 1, N
>>>          A(I) = I
>>>       ENDDOhttp://mesonet.tamu.edu/TexAQS/slideshow.php
>>>       END
>>
>>
>> Grrrrr .... Little Endian Machines - you got to love to hate them.  
>> This should of course be:http://mesonet.tamu.edu/TexAQS/slideshow.php
>>
>>      SUBROUTINE SUB(A, N)
>>      INTEGER*8 I, N
>>      DIMENSION A(N)
>>      DO I = 1, N
>>         A(I) = I
>>      ENDDO
>>      END
>>
>> To maximize the "runes" effect I've written this in all uppercase :-)
> 
> 
> Properly indented and everything.  I wouldn't even recognize it as
> Fortran otherwise.
> 
> Now all I have to do is find a Rosetta stone somewhere, and a magnifying
> glass (as I'm getting old and presbyopic:-)... what is this ENDDO
> command?  Where are the numbers, as in:
> 
>       DO 10 I = 1, N
>          DO_SOME_WORK(I)
> 10    CONTINUE
> 
> ???  And where are the line labels in columns 73-80?  These ARE punch
> card images, aren't they...:-)
> 
>     rgb
> 

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