Language Obsolescence

Fortran 90 has a number of features marked as obsolescent, this means,

• they are already redundant in FORTRAN 77;
• better methods of programming already existed in the FORTRAN 77 standard;
• programmers should stop using them;
• the standards committee's intention is that many of these features will be removed from the next revision of the language, Fortran 95;

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