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From: fouts@lemming.nas.nasa.gov.nas.nasa.gov (Marty Fouts)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Fortran vs C for computations
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Date: 8 Sep 88 22:32:14 GMT
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In article <3342@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:

>
>But then, back to my original point.  Use #ifdef with your Fortran code.
>C does _not_ have a monopoly on preprocessors.
>

True.  C only has one (cpp.) Fortran has lots of them -- very nearly
one from each vendor.  RATFOR is nearly portable, but it doesn't run
on several machine I am forced to use.  Every machine I use has cpp.
It its going to be portable, it has to be in the language standard.

Marty


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