Re: Is there a way in Fortran to designate an integer value as integer*8 ?

On 10/5/2024 8:58 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Sat, 5 Oct 2024 19:39:31 -0500, Gary Scott wrote:
 

On 10/5/2024 6:07 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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On Sat, 5 Oct 2024 13:52:01 -0500, Gary Scott wrote:
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I really liked the flexibility of string/text processing of IBM's
DCF/Script/GML.  How that was powerful string handling.

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As good as Perl?

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vastly better, but it was specifically a text (document) processor,
vastly different purpose.

 How could it have been better without regular expressions?

Extremely powerful substitution, full control of fonts, code points, code pages, dynamically controlled overprinting, image handling, direct/binary datastream writing/editing, formatting page columns, gutters, running headings/footings, tables, lists (order, unordered, etc.), full support for foreign languages, double byte character sets decades before unicode, programmed symbol sets to devices.  Directly define your own gml (predecessor to html) tags.  Full support for numerical conversions, special/math symbol support, character substitution, font substitution tables based upon device capabilities...just to scratch the surface...