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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Fortran versus C for numerical anal
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Date: 1 Sep 88 14:04:00 GMT
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>The fact that C parenthesis don't force execution order is sufficient
>to exclude C from use in some instances.  

But in ANSI C parenthesis DO force execution order, in cases where
computational results could differ from the expected mathematical one.
Thus, if you compiler is ANSI, there is no problem.

Doug McDonald