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Re:Fortran is still a thing by dboreham on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @04:04PM (#18546721)
Fixed columns was Fortran IV
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Re:Fortran is still a thing by wycy on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @04:37PM (#18547063)
From what I gather, fixed columns was all FORTRAN versions up to F77, since Wikipedia says free format was introduced in Fortran 90 [0]. But it may have been the case perhaps that some compilers supported proprietary directives to support this in earlier versions--I wouldn't know, though.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran#Fortran_90

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