Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!wuarchive!udel!nigel.ee.udel.edu!mccalpin From: mccalpin@perelandra.cms.udel.edu (John D. McCalpin) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Fortran vs. C for numerical work - expression notation Message-ID: Date: 10 Dec 90 14:24:18 GMT References: <8339@lanl.gov> <914:Dec923:50:2990@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <1990Dec10.023332.15164@ariel.unm.edu> <4390:Dec1003:50:4790@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <1990Dec10.071457.21537@ariel.unm.edu> Sender: usenet@ee.udel.edu Organization: College of Marine Studies, U. Del. Lines: 27 Nntp-Posting-Host: perelandra.cms.udel.edu In-reply-to: john@ghostwheel.unm.edu's message of 10 Dec 90 07:14:57 GMT >>>>> On 10 Dec 90 07:14:57 GMT, john@ghostwheel.unm.edu (John Prentice) said: John> In article <4390:Dec1003:50:4790@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes: >> >Most professional Fortran programmers groan when they hear that >> >Fortran 8X (oops, 9X) has a > b. Maybe ``standard mathematical >> >notation'' isn't as important as familiar notation... > >This was the uniform reaction of a large roomful of Fortran programmers >at Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1987 at a presentation of Fortran 8X John> I have heard alot of groaning about Fortran Extended being too big, too John> much like Ada, etc... I have NEVER heard a room full of Fortran John> programmers complain about it however because it uses < instead of John> .lt. (which is what you said). Come on, people --- Fortran Extended does not "use" '<' instead of '.LT.'. Fortran Extended *allows* the use of '<' as an *alternative* to '.LT.'. If you don't like it, you don't have to use it. If other people use it and it hurts your eyes to read their code, then I would be happy to sell you a very clever gadget that will convert their blasphemous code back to the way God intended it. -- John D. McCalpin mccalpin@perelandra.cms.udel.edu Assistant Professor mccalpin@brahms.udel.edu College of Marine Studies, U. Del. J.MCCALPIN/OMNET