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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Conformant Arrays in C
Keywords: ANSI C Fortran
Message-ID: <7314@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 22 Feb 88 11:24:00 GMT
References: <42529@sun.uucp> <7297@brl-smoke.ARPA> <676@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> <2336@umd5.umd.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2336@umd5.umd.edu> chris@trantor.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes:
>So why is this solution insufficient?

Because it's a pain in the lower part of the anatomy!
Or, in other words, just because it is theoretically sufficient
does not mean that it is convenient.
This is one of the limitations of C that Fortran programmers
have difficulty with; they're used to being able to write
reasonable array manipulation routines.