Xref: utzoo comp.lang.fortran:4252 comp.lang.c:34447 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!goanna!ok From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Fortran vs. C for numerical work (SUMMARY) Message-ID: <4421@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> Date: 3 Dec 90 07:47:12 GMT References: <1990Nov21.220816.15220@rice.edu> <2173@tuvie> <1990Nov30.183032.5420@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Followup-To: comp.lang.fortran Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia Lines: 11 In article <1990Nov30.183032.5420@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, salomon@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Dan Salomon) writes: > I remember once trying to translate a FORTRAN fast-fourier analysis > procedure into PL/I. Sounds like a piece of cake, right? The problem > was that the FORTRAN procedure accepted arrays with not only any size > of dimensions, but also with any number of dimensions. I don't recall that being legal in F77. To be sure, I've met compilers that didn't bother to check, and I think there was a special case for DATA statements, but argument passing? -- I am not now and never have been a member of Mensa. -- Ariadne. Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com