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- From: jsvrc@rc.rit.edu (J A Stephen Viggiano)
- Subject: Re: Is FORTRAN a viable language?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.224351.14878@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
- Sender: jsvrc@rc.rit.edu (Doctor FORTRAN)
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 22:43:51 GMT
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- In article <1hqnn7INNfac@shelley.u.washington.edu> chew@accel.aa.washington.edu (Gilbert Chew) writes:
- >Is FORTRAN dead?
-
- Not while I'm Doctor FORTRAN.
-
- >I had always thought that, while C/C++ may be
- >getting more publicity, there were still scientists
- >and engineers who used FORTRAN. So, where are
- >all the FORTRAN messages?
-
- Did you see the (tounge-in-cheek) thread on Real Programmers? Real Programmers
- don't post on the net. :-)
-
- Seriously, I wouldn't equate the volume of net.traffic with the viability
- of a language (or anything else, for that matter). I'll admit, C and C++
- will probably be around forever. Almost as long as FORTRAN will be.
-
- ==Doctor FORTRAN
-