[Fortran - trunk, committed] More updates to g77 documentation.

[Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>]

Lectoribus Salutem,

I just committed the attached patch [patch ommitted - it turned out to
be too large] to the trunk.  It updates f/g77.texi and f/invoke.texi
(and therefore the g77 man page), using more specific texinfo indicators
for `commands', `options' and tables (gleaned from gcc.texi).

Bootstrapped, make dvi'd and installed on i686-pc-linux-gnu.

I also added the fact that Dave Love contributed the libU77 part of the
run-time library (it's beyond me why this was never mentioned in the
documentation ...) and a few lines of strongly opinionated text about
the future of g77 vis-a-vis the development of g95, mainly to dampen
enthousiasm about all the good things that an (upcoming) version 0.6 of
g77 would have provided if it would ever have seen the light of day.

Opinionated, sure.  But not nearly as opinionated about the future of
Fortran as this article, in the oracle of all things computable ... The
Economist:

        http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=832711

"The search for intelligent life at NASA

AS RECENTLY as 1995, most NASA
scientists still wrote their
computer programs in FORTRAN,
an ancient programming tongue
invented in the 1950s."

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