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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Calling FORTRAN from C (Was: Need matrix inversion C routine).
Message-ID: <10237@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 8 May 89 18:09:50 GMT
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In article <10228@socslgw.csl.sony.JUNET> diamond@csl.sony.junet (Norman Diamond) writes:
>When DEC did exactly this, around 10 years ago, luck did not seem to be
>part of it.

DEC tried to do it, but I wouldn't call their attempt fully successful.

>... other languages only specified WHAT gets done by various language
>constructs, but K&R added HOW it must be done for their language.

I don't know what you mean by this.  Do you?