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From: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: How to supplant FORTRAN (Was: Algol-68 down for the count)
Message-ID: <2176@garth.UUCP>
Date: 10 Dec 88 23:07:23 GMT
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Reply-To: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
Organization: INTERGRAPH (APD) -- Palo Alto, CA
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I agree languages are but a tool and should meet the needs of the users, but
what are the needs of users?

Does anyone have a wish list of concrete proposals to make life easier for
scientific programming and/or numerical analysis?
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                                                   -- s m ryan
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