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From: d25001@mic.UUCP (Carrington Dixon)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: An exercise in futility
Keywords: The RIGHT number
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Date: 21 Jan 89 02:04:26 GMT
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Reply-To: d25001@mic.UUCP (Carrington Dixon)
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In article <588@mbph.UUCP> hybl@mbph.UUCP (Albert Hybl  Dept of Biophysics  SM) writes:

>                                          --please give me the
>dynamic memory allocation routines like malloc, calloc, realloc,
>and free from the C language.  


     OK.  Take them -- please !-)

    I do wonder, though, how you expect to use them in a standards-
conforming FORTRAN program.

    Seriously, the only language that comes close to being defined as
rigorously as you seem to desire is Ada(TM).  I don't think that there is
any hope of getting that kind of "thou shalt not" definition into the
FORTRAN standard -- it would break too much working code and make the
FORTRAN-8X flap seem like an amicable dialog between friends who 
agree on almost everything.
     I don't know enough about Ada to say if it would be a reasonable
choice for your project or not, but if you really need (or just desire)
a language whose standard is defined with the kind of rigor that you
suggest for FORTRAN, then Ada is your only 'real world' choice.


Carrington Dixon
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