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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Look ... [or: one, two, three, many]
Message-ID: <3340:Jan322:21:4791@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 3 Jan 91 22:21:47 GMT
References: <1990Dec29.110202.3862@mathrt0.math.chalmers.se> <19717:Jan220:38:5491@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <40569@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
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In article <40569@nigel.ee.udel.edu> new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New) writes:
> In article <19717:Jan220:38:5491@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
> >> Anonymous voice says:
> >> FORTRAN is a subset of C.
> >This statement refers to much more than language power. In particular, C
> >cannot deal with certain features of Fortran syntax. Therefore Fortran
> >is not a subset of C. Why are you being facetious?
> Well, if you write a FORTRAN interpreter in C, I don't see how you can
> say that FORTRAN is not a subset of C.

Gee. I wrote a Forth interpreter in 8088 assembler. Does that make Forth
a subset of 8088 assembler?

> Precisely which "features of
> Fortran syntax" is C incapable of handling?

A parser for C cannot parse Fortran's spacing conventions. Finis.

---Dan