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From: fpst@hubcap.UUCP (Steve Stevenson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Fortran 8x, recursive procedures
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Date: 25 Mar 88 13:10:31 GMT
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in article <4737@aw.sei.cmu.edu>, firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) says:
> 
> In article <1180@hubcap.UUCP> fpst@hubcap.UUCP (Steve Stevenson) writes:
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> 	[ANSI X3.9-1978 15.6.2.2], third para.

Ooooopsss.... I goofed.  Let me put it this way: there is no good
reason for above reference and there is nothing in the Fortran
virtual machine that make recursion prohibited.

> 
> Also, I'm a bit puzzled by the idea of "extending Fortran for hypercubes".
> Extending Fortran for, say, business data processing sounds like a good
> idea, since that's a genuine problem domain.

To deal with the T-series effectively, several new concepts need to be
put into the language.  The T is an unshared memory system and hence
large matrices are carved up and stored locally to a processor.

There seems to be two points of view about programming on these things.
The dusty deckers and the non-dusty deckers.  Our numerical people
fall into the latter.

As to business applications for Fortran - surely you jest.

-- 
Steve Stevenson                            fpst@hubcap.clemson.edu
(aka D. E. Stevenson),                     fpst@clemson.csnet
Department of Computer Science,            comp.parallel
Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-1906 (803)656-5880.mabell