Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!van-bc!ubc-cs!fs1!ee.ubc.ca!mikeb From: mikeb@ee.ubc.ca (Mike Bolotski) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Efficient Fortran Message-ID: <1352@fs1.ee.ubc.ca> Date: 4 Aug 90 21:03:19 GMT References: <1991@key.COM> <2378@l.cc.purdue.edu> <2428@l.cc.purdue.edu> Sender: root@fs1.ee.ubc.ca Reply-To: mikeb@salmon.ee.ubc.ca Organization: Dept of EE, University of British Columbia Lines: 17 In article <2428@l.cc.purdue.edu>, cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes: > [ ... ]. One should not have to use a different programming > language for different types of problems. [ ... ] The most ridiculous statement I've seen on this newsgroup. It rather causes the reader to question the qualifications of the author on any aspect of language design or implementation. And I've written quite a few language parsers with lex/yacc, some of which have syntax as horrid as the one Herman proposed. It doesn't require much effort to slop together a language for a temporary project. -- Mike Bolotski VLSI Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering mikeb@salmon.ee.ubc.ca University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada