Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!uaisun4!mrl From: mrl@uai.com (Mark R. Ludwig) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: NAG Fortran 90 announcement Message-ID: <1991Jun27.205204.21086@uai.com> Date: 27 Jun 91 20:52:04 GMT References: <15634@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <26334@lanl.gov> <1991Jun26.003429.6364@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> Sender: mrl@uai.com (Mark R. Ludwig) Reply-To: mrl@uai.com (Mark R. Ludwig) Organization: Universal Analytics, Inc., Playa del Rey (LA), CA Lines: 16 In-Reply-To: bglenden@colobus.cv.nrao.edu (Brian Glendenning) In article , bglenden@colobus (Brian Glendenning) writes: >Summary: F90 is a fine language with nice features. I fear that the >delays and ANSI making it an alternate Fortran standard may have >killed it. I happen to agree, but I appear to be among the minority at our company. We maintain a medium large, fairly stable scientific application written by government workers and contractors in the '60s and '70s. The people here who've been around Fortran for that whole time think F90 is "not Fortran" any more: it's too radically different. But then these same people aren't "comfortable" using strings in F77 either...$$ -- INET: mrl@uai.com UUCP: uunet!uaisun4!mrl PSTN: +1 213 822 4422 USPS: 7740 West Manchester Boulevard, Suite 208, Playa del Rey, CA 90293 WANT: Succinct, insightful statement to occupy this space. Inquire within.