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From: sullivan@aqdata.uucp (Michael T. Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Educating FORTRAN programmers to use C
Message-ID: <1990Jan8.164242.3891@aqdata.uucp>
Date: 8 Jan 90 16:42:42 GMT
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From article <1024@sdrc.UUCP>, by spabdul@sdrc.UUCP (abdul shammaa):
>> [ stuff about a function with 263 goto's in it]
> 
> How do you convince your managment that it's time to throw away the
> ancient FORTRAN 4 when there are thousands and thousands of lines of that
> crap :-( ?! To make matters worse, most to the developers are those who
> fear "C" or just don't want to change.  I am getting sick and tired of

No, no, no.  That WAS C code.  It was written by FORTRAN/mainframe stuff
programmer as his first C project.
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Michael Sullivan          uunet!jarthur.uucp!aqdata!sullivan
aQdata, Inc.
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