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From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: NOT Educating FORTRAN programmers to use C
Message-ID: <15106@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Date: 22 Jan 90 16:36:14 GMT
References: <12950@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> <14199@lambda.UUCP>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
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In article <14199@lambda.UUCP> jlg@lambda.UUCP (Jim Giles) writes:
>Fortran allows intrinsic functions to be optimized, C hasn't any intrinsics
>(I know, the new standard permits such - show me an available implementation
>before you mention it again).

Microsoft and Intel have both supported inline (intrinsic) string functions
and such for about two years in their draft-ANSI compilers.

I am actually on the pro-FORTRAN side of this, but let's not cite the
wrong reasons.
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we'd be too simple to understand it. -- Pat Bahn     ((=  tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET