Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 02:33:52 -0000 (UTC), root wrote:

["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.misc.] Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

>
If Fortran can be a ???junk language??? by your definition, then so can
any language.

 
It wasn't Fortran that changed, it was the CDC compiler.

Was it nonconforming or prior to the ANSI standard? Over the years gcc has
become pickier about practices that weren't very good to start with like
assuming functions return an int unless otherwise specified or declaring
variables in header files.