Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!bobmon
From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: fortran to C converter
Message-ID: <20068@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 26 Apr 89 19:27:11 GMT
Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
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->Speaking of doubleprecision, the next topic of discussion is why C
->believes in whitespace.

C doesn't HAVE to _believe_ in whitespace; the existence of whitespace
is easily _proven_ by inspecting printouts.  (This may fail on ADM-3's
and similar terminals, especially the ones that power-up with CAPS LOCK
set ON.)

If all C files go through the preprocessor first, does the code generator
have to believe in stdio.h?  Is the linker agnostic?

"Our R-tchie Who Art in Bell Labs,
 External static be Thy Name.
 Thy system call come,
 I/O be done,
 In industry as it is in academia."