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Subject: Re: Piles of plusses (was Re: comma
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Date: 28 Apr 89 14:24:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Apr 28 09:24:00 1989



>   In FORTRAN it is STILL allowed to use variables that have not been 
>declared.   This is a practise that should be eliminated from all serious
>programming languages, due to the ease with which bugs can be created.

It is not a matter of "being still allowed" --it is that automatic
generation of variable is the heart and soul of Fortran. Many,
many supposedly "more advanced" languages such as Pascal and C
STILL require you to declare all variables - just like assembly
language. Fortran and Basic, apparently alone, have the computer
do the work for you (in the most common cases) [although C 
will in some cases allow you to do without declaring some things
to be int, the most common being functions].

Doug McDonald