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From: gt4512c@prism.gatech.EDU (BRADBERRY,JOHN L)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Fortran vs. C argument
Message-ID: <18138@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 5 Dec 90 13:08:46 GMT
References: <28621@usc>
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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In article <28621@usc> ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:
>
>Why does this debate dominate comp.lang.fortran??

FORTRAN vs C represents the 'twinkie generation gap!'...

>
>Religious wars aren't too useful to anyone concerned.

I find that the religious wars are fought largely because not
enough people on BOTH sides of the issuse have invested enough
time and effort LEARNING about the language. C jocks who have
written 250K+ lines in FORTRAN are the exception just as FORTRAN
jocks who have written 250K+ lines in C!

>
>...
>Fortran in the world.  Because top-notch people in the professional
>world today got their Ph. D.s in the middle ages, they'll

I guess we must ALL learn C to avoid being called old farts! (smile)...
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