Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jato!vsnyder From: vsnyder@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Van Snyder) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: Fortran - our favorite language Message-ID: <1991Mar29.015248.24099@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> Date: 29 Mar 91 01:52:48 GMT References: <1991Mar20.195732.15376@appmag.com> <2218@cluster.cs.su.oz.au> <16149@chaph.usc.edu> Reply-To: vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Van Snyder) Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA Lines: 34 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... > > Please, answer me, enlighten me on my feelings toward f77... > > ... cuz i still think it s*cks!! :-p > >******************************************************************************* > >"Mother, do you think they'll like this song?" > _____ _ / >Ron A. Echeverri | | \ / >BSAE 1994 Univ. of So. California |he |-email: echeverr@sal8.usc.edu | |_/ / > / Sounds like he doesn't like C much either. The problems with Fortran are well known. So why doesn't it disappear? Because Pascal, Algol, C, ... don't know how to compute, for one reason or another. E.g., no open arrays in pascal, all intermediates coerced to double in (pre-ANSI) C, no 2 argument arctangent in Modula-2, no standardized I/O anywhere except Fortran, serious portability problems for the arcane languages, no decent compilers for (insert your favorite) ... -- vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov ames!elroy!jato!vsnyder vsnyder@jato.uucp