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From: faustus@yew.Berkeley.EDU (Wayne Christopher)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: NOT Educating FORTRAN programmers to use C
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Date: 24 Jan 90 17:44:20 GMT
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I haven't used FORTRAN myself, but from these discussions it seems
to me that there are a lot of things you are not supposed to do to
make things nice for the compiler, like create aliases and allow foo()
in "x[i] + foo()" to alter x or i.  Do FORTRAN compilers check these
constraints?  If not, aren't they a great source of hard-to-find bugs,
that go away when you turn off optimization?

	Wayne