Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!exodus!exodus-bb!khb From: khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM (Keith Bierman fpgroup) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: Fortran - our favorite language Message-ID: Date: 28 Mar 91 01:43:23 GMT References: <1991Mar20.195732.15376@appmag.com> <2218@cluster.cs.su.oz.au> <16149@chaph.usc.edu> Sender: news@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM Organization: Sun MegaSystems Lines: 20 In-reply-to: echeverr@sal-sun8.usc.edu's message of 28 Mar 91 01:03:57 GMT In article <16149@chaph.usc.edu> echeverr@sal-sun8.usc.edu (The Black Sheep) writes: Excuse me, but is it just me, or is fortran a language so old it is becoming obsolescent? Really, i just can't handle doing programs while tripping over small details and phantom errors from nowhere and tricky compilations and core dump after core dump after execution... Have you used modern tools (static analysis tools for FORTRAN are at least 15 years old ... older I'm sure). Tried debugging C++ codes without good support tools ? I don't think the language is at fault. But feel free to stop coding in it. It is a free country. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Keith H. Bierman kbierman@Eng.Sun.COM | khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM SMI 2550 Garcia 12-33 | (415 336 2648) Mountain View, CA 94043