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From: mike@arizona.edu (Mike Coffin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: so much for X3J3
Message-ID: <10183@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: 11 Apr 89 19:49:01 GMT
References: <98041@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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From article <98041@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, by khb@fatcity.Sun.COM (fatcity):

> [Fortran 88] is not a CS language product. It is the result of many
> "real world engineers and scientsts" crafting a tool to solve their
> problems. CS types hate the product.

I think you exaggerate; I haven't met many CS types who *care* enough
to hate the product.  As far as language design goes, the "real world"
and CS long ago parted company; few in the "real world" are interested
in designing a new language, and few in CS are interested in designing
an old one.
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