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From: alm@a.lanl.gov (Alex Marusak)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: so much for X3J3
Keywords: WG5, standard, wasted everybody's time
Message-ID: <862@a.lanl.gov>
Date: 11 Apr 89 16:03:14 GMT
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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References: <24032@beta.lanl.gov> <97753@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <24066@beta.lanl.gov> <98041@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
In article <98041@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, khb@fatcity.Sun.COM (fatcity) writes:
> In article <24066@beta.lanl.gov> dd@beta.lanl.gov (Dan Davison) writes:
> .....
> >Then perhaps if the committee had concentrated on improving Fortran
> >instead of molding it in the image of a CS language product none of the
> >travail would have been necessary.
 
> ...It is not a CS language product... CS types hate the product. 

Actually, that 'CS types hate the product....' means only that those
who had a hand in the design of Fortran 8x (CS types, engineers, scientists,
and all) have succeeded both in antagonizing the Fortran user community
and in incurring the disdain of the CS types.