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From: mac@cis.ksu.edu (Myron A. Calhoun)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Fortran - our favorite language
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Date: 28 Mar 91 13:29:48 GMT
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In <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...

>	Please, answer me, enlighten me on my feelings toward f77...

OH!  I thought you were talking about our Modula-2 compiler!
--Myron.
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