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From: jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: f8x impact on debugging (was: Re: y
Message-ID: <12391@lanl.gov>
Date: 20 Apr 89 21:01:14 GMT
References: <44400038@hcx2>
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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From article <44400038@hcx2>, by bill@hcx2.SSD.HARRIS.COM:
> 
> To answer Jim Giles question: "Are there features that impact efficiency
> even if not used?"

Actually, I didn't ask that question (I'll have to check back for who
did).  But, thanks for your answer anyway.

It has been my experience, though, that adding new features doesn't prevent
vendors from improving the Fortran compiler in other ways - it prevents
them from spending time implementing other languages.  A host of new Fortran
features may actually cause the quality of commercial compilers to improve
since the vendors will be forced to work on them again.