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From: jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Fortran versus C for numerical analysis
Message-ID: <3118@lanl.gov>
Date: 1 Sep 88 17:58:52 GMT
References: <177@djs.UUCP>
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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From article <177@djs.UUCP>, by samperi@djs.UUCP (Dominick Samperi):
> o A compiler's license to treat mathematically associative operators
>   as computationally associative is revoked [in the new standard]. 

This is MORE restrictive than the significant parenthesis of Fortran.
The main complaint against Fortran was that it restricted optimization
too much.  I haven't seen this in any of the ANSI draft standards yet.
I hope I won't.

J. Giles
Los Alamos