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From: jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Education for Fortran 90 (was: Fortran 9X replaced by Ada 9X ?)
Message-ID: <63197@lanl.gov>
Date: 17 Sep 90 21:28:24 GMT
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Organization: Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, N.M.
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From article <58199@masscomp.ccur.com>, by andyo@masscomp.ccur.com (Andy Oram):
> [...]
> 	Brainerd, Walter S., Charles H. Goldberg, and Jeanne C. Adams,
> 	Programmer's Guide to Fortran 90, Intertext Publications, McGraw-Hill
> 	Book Company, New York, 1990.

Brainerd, et. al. is very biased in favor of the new standard.  The book
glosses quickly over the really ugly features of the proposed standard.
If they aren't worth being written up in detail - not even by members
of the committee, why are they in the proposal (in particular: pointers
to array sections - a quick glance reveals ther're redundant with no
useful functionality - above book mentions them, but gives no examples
of their use).

J. Giles