Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!caip!princeton!allegra!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!ltuxa!ttrdc!levy From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: C vs. FORTRAN (was: What should be added to C) Message-ID: <914@ttrdc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 3-Jun-86 18:20:23 EDT Article-I.D.: ttrdc.914 Posted: Tue Jun 3 18:20:23 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 5-Jun-86 19:34:47 EDT References: <1594@ecsvax.UUCP> <477@cubsvax.UUCP> <178@njitcccc.UUCP> Organization: AT&T, Computer Systems Division, Skokie, IL Lines: 23 In article <178@njitcccc.UUCP>, ken@njitcccc.UUCP (Kenneth Ng) writes: >In article <477@cubsvax.UUCP>, peters@cubsvax.UUCP (Peter S. Shenkin) writes: >> In article kwh@bentley.UUCP (KW Heuer) writes: >> I agree; on the other hand, what C has over FORTRAN in this regard is the >> ability to keep writing on the same line in subsequent calls to printf(); >> that is, to *not* insert a newline after WRITEing. >Try looking up what the "+" in column 1 does in the format. >It supresses the carriage advance. The nestablility of the >format enables some very fancy tricks to be used in formating >output. In my 18 line fortran game of life I printed the header, >put stars around the grid, printed the grid, and did a top of form >on every other generation, using one format and one write statement. >Kenneth Ng: uucp(unreliable) ihnp4!allegra!bellcore!njitcccc!ken _18 line_ fortran game of life? Can you post that (in net.lang.f77 of course)? -- ------------------------------- Disclaimer: The views contained herein are | dan levy | yvel nad | my own and are not at all those of my em- | an engihacker @ | ployer or the administrator of any computer | at&t computer systems division | upon which I may hack. | skokie, illinois | -------------------------------- Path: ..!{akgua,homxb,ihnp4,ltuxa,mvuxa, vax135}!ttrdc!levy