[comp.lang.fortran] Command Line Arguments

ekman@wdl30.wdl.loral.com (Donald Ekman) (05/31/91)

Why should these be called "arguments."  I haven't the least intention of
arguing with my compiler; rather, I would issue command line directives.
Who's in charge here, anyway?

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jf@threel.co.uk (John Fisher) (06/04/91)

yfcw14@castle.ed.ac.uk (K P Donnelly) writes:

> Unfortunately Edinburgh University's EMAS operating system is
> disappearing exactly one year from now.  They are moving over to Unix to
> be the same as everyone else.

*And* they're abandoning IMP <sniff>...

--John

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ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) (06/06/91)

In article <284b63b1@ThreeL.co.uk>, jf@threel.co.uk (John Fisher) writes:
> *And* they're abandoning IMP <sniff>...
> --John

Hooray!  "We call it IMP because it's an invention of the Devil..."

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