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From: perry@apollo.uucp (Jim Perry)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: FORTRAN Horror
Message-ID: <3b11233d.ddc1@apollo.uucp>
Date: 25 Mar 88 16:53:00 GMT
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Reply-To: perry@apollo.UUCP (Jim Perry)
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, MA
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>  I think this is an area where the classic symptoms of moral superiority
>abound. Computer science has progressed beyond the capabilities of Fortran
>and now views it with disdain as neanderthal. 
... Lots of good points
>Ross W. Wetmore                 | rwwetmore@water.NetNorth

What I find particularly amusing is that the people who are most vocal 
in their disdain of Fortran are very likely to be die-hard C programmers...

Cro-Magnon perhaps?  :-P

Jim Perry   perry@apollo.UUCP   Apollo Computer, Chelmsford MA