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- Path: sparky!uunet!dtix!oasys!roth
- From: roth@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Pete Roth)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
- Subject: Re: Is FORTRAN a viable language?
- Message-ID: <29133@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 13:21:41 GMT
- References: <30DEC92.23333933@edison.usask.ca>
- Reply-To: roth@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Pete Roth)
- Organization: The David Taylor Model Basin
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- In comp.lang.fortran, f54oguocha@edison.usask.ca writes:
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- >in different circles to bring more flexibility into FORTRAN. The current
- >MS-FORTRAN(5.1) is many miles ahead of FORTRAN 77 you are used to in terms
- >of flexibility and capabilities. it does most of those things the C/C++
- >protagonists make noise about if you understand it very well. again, with
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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- Fortran does NOT do most of the things C++ folk make noise about.
- Fortran does OTHER things very well.
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- Grace & peace, pete
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- Peter N Roth roth@oasys.dt.navy.mil
- Do what you can with what you have where you are. - D L Moody.
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