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From: eugene@pioneer.arpa (Eugene N. Miya)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: FORTRAN Horror
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Date: 23 Mar 88 00:50:09 GMT
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In article <10037@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>  The arithmetic if is one of the few good things in FORTRAN,

Arithmetic is FORTRAN is an abortion!  No numerical analyst worth his (her)
salt would truncate or specify user specified rounding (See the SIGPLAN
paper entitled Benchmark Semantics a month ago).  This is one of the reasons
for the IEEE Floating Point Standard.  These are kludges and other short cuts
from the days when good floating point rounding "cost more."

From the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers:

--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@ames-aurora.ARPA
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