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From: grisanti@plains.NoDak.edu (Ames Grisanti)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: what is FORTRAN for?
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Date: 26 Jul 90 15:10:52 GMT
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Organization: UND Energy Research Center
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> 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.
> 
Because some people prefer not to RE-INVENT the wheel using C.

Many applicaions and subroutine libraries are available in FORTRAN
and some of us would rather USE the computer rather than spend large
amounts of time programming.

If I ran off re-writing every application I use in whatever new
or better language came along. I would never get any REAL work
done.

Ames Grisanti
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