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From: karl@ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
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Subject: Re: Fortran vs. C for numerical work
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Date: 5 Dec 90 17:37:16 GMT
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In article <8960029@hpfcso.HP.COM> mjs@hpfcso.HP.COM (Marc Sabatella) writes:
>Boolean operations: expressing them in numerical terms is an unnecessary (for
>most Fortran programmers) generalization.

Not that this stops Fortran programmers from writing Y+C*(Y-X) when they want
C?X:Y (and they "know" that .TRUE. is implemented as -1).

>And why do you need parentheses around the "if" argument?

Huh?  Both C and Fortran need them, and for exactly the same reason.  This is
a reasonable question from a Pascal user, and the counter is "Why does Pascal
need a THEN keyword?"

Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl@ima.isc.com or uunet!ima!karl), The Walking Lint