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From: sow@eru.mt.luth.se (Sven-Ove Westberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Why have FORTRAN 8x at all?
Keywords: FORTRAN PL/I kludge
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Date: 8 Nov 88 23:19:13 GMT
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In article <75320@sun.uucp> khb@sun.UUCP (Keith Bierman - Sun Tactical Engineering) writes:

|would seem to demonstrate this. Know of a single vendor of high
|performance computers who doesn't produce a fortran compiler FIRST ?

ALL that don't write the operating system and other utilities in fortran.

Sven-Ove Westberg, CAD, University of Lulea, S-951 87 Lulea, Sweden.
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