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From: bobal@microsoft.UUCP (Bob Allison)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Should I convert FORTRAN code to C?
Summary: Glowing praise for a really nice article
Message-ID: <1532@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jun 88 14:56:53 GMT
References: <2742@utastro.UUCP> <50500055@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: bobal@microsoft (Bob Allison)
Organization: Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
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In article <50500055@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> hirchert@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
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>FORTRAN remains the preeminent language for numerical (esp. scientific and
>engineering) computing for a number of reasons:
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> [a very complete, fairly concise, excellent description of FORTRAN's
>  strengths and weaknesses]
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>Kurt W. Hirchert     hirchert@ncsa.uiuc.edu
>National Center for Supercomputing Applications

You know, I read this article and was actually envious.  Here is someone
who writes a crisp, clean, definitive, informative, objective,
technically sound article.  I wondered what would happen if I could 
write articles like this.  I wondered what would happen if the whole net
started writing articles like this.  Then I saw it was Kurt, and I thought
"Oh, of course".  For Kurt is intelligent, informative, and rational:
truly a gentleman and a scholar.  

In short: that was a really good article.  Thanks.

P.S.  Now, don't you wish you hadn't skipped that article? :-).

Bob Allison
(If we could only find someone who knew about all the FORTRAN to C
translators who would write a similar article for us)