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From: lm@snafu.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy)
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Subject: Re: Inlining subroutines at link time
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Date: 4 Jul 90 00:31:39 GMT
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In article <1990Jul3.215128.23026@portia.Stanford.EDU> dhinds@portia.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds) writes:
>    Geez, is this a cheap shot, or what?  FORTRAN has its weaknesses,
>but inefficiency is not one of them.  I know of no other language that
>can be as effectively optimized.  

Yeah, I used to like fortran pretty well.  I have before me "Programmers Guide
to Fortran 90" which contains things, such as pointers, that make me wonder
if this is going to make fortran an uninteresting language.
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Larry McVoy, Sun Microsystems     (415) 336-7627       ...!sun!lm or lm@sun.com