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		bee_rider 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Phrase origin: Why do we "call" functions? Fortran has grown a lot over time. If somebody said it don’t have a do loop in 196X, I wouldn’t be too surprised. Really it’s just syntactic sugar, just use a goto.

bregma 5 months ago | [–]

FORTRAN IV, at least the version I used on the PDP-11 running RSX, did not have a DO-loop. Just IF and GO TO. But it did have both logical and arithmetic IF.

pklausler 5 months ago | | [–]

I don’t believe this.

pklausler 5 months ago | [–]

The entire point of Fortran was being an effective optimizing compiler for DO loops.

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