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From: ttw@lambda.UUCP (Tony Warnock)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: What is the FORTRAN for ?
Summary: full-contact industrial strength programming
Keywords: FORTRAN, stupidity
Message-ID: <14448@lambda.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jul 90 19:24:59 GMT
References: <1990Jul25.174153.16896@ecn.purdue.edu>
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In article <1990Jul25.174153.16896@ecn.purdue.edu>, moshkovi@sanandreas.ecn.purdue.edu (Gennady Moshkovich) writes:
> Please, don't consider my question offending, but why the hell in this world
> you people still using FORTRAN, while so many nice C around.
> 
> Gene
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     Fortran is used by people who like verbs in their clauses.

     More seriously, Fortran is used by people who are doing
     industrial strength computing such as number crunching,
     string manipulation, matrix stuff, complex variables, etc.
     When dealing with problems which are naturally expressed
     in multi-dimensional arrays, Fortran is the way to go.

     Fortran for full-contact programming!