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From: smryan@garth.UUCP (sous-realiste)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: What is the FORTRAN for ?
Summary: The Little Shop of Horrors.
Message-ID: <654@garth.UUCP>
Date: 7 Aug 90 18:06:51 GMT
References: <1990Jul25.174153.16896@ecn.purdue.edu>
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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.

Just say NO!

You might as well ask why so many people use cocaine. Man, it gives me lots
of energy, I can move so fast. Dangerous at any speed.

C (and Unix), on the other hand, is a successful ATT experiment on crippling
on machines equal.

Most people use Fortran/C/Cobol/Pascal/... because it's easier than learning
a new language.
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