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From: cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Fortran 8x Removed Features
Message-ID: <616@l.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: Wed, 18-Nov-87 06:47:44 EST
Article-I.D.: l.616
Posted: Wed Nov 18 06:47:44 1987
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Organization: Purdue University Statistics Department
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Summary: I want most of them to stay


The article gives 21 FORTRAN features slated for eventual deletion.  Some
of them I have not used, but about 15 of them are simple constructs, easy
to use, and not easily replaced by anything reasonable.  I suspect that
another person will find the same about the ones I have not appreciated.
We need more powerful languages, not language police.

-- 
Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907
Phone: (317)494-6054
hrubin@l.cc.purdue.edu (ARPA or UUCP) or hrubin@purccvm.bitnet