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From: link@stew.ssl.berkeley.edu (Richard Link)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: FORTRAN 8x parser/lexer .NE. compiler
Keywords: FORTRAN 8x
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Date: 20 Oct 88 07:03:26 GMT
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In article <656@convex.UUCP> rowan@convex.COM (Steve Rowan) writes:
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>Granted, an Ada compiler is simpler than a FORTRAN 8x compiler

Oh my God! Is this really true?

The biggest gripe against Ada is it's size; in the same vein that an
elephant is a mouse designed to mil specs.

Dr. Richard Link
Space Sciences Laboratory
University of California, Berkeley
link@ssl.berkeley.edu