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From: jlg@lambda.UUCP (Jim Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Anyone want to design a languag
Message-ID: <14252@lambda.UUCP>
Date: 23 Feb 90 22:58:34 GMT
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From article <RANG.90Feb23135101@derby.cs.wisc.edu>, by rang@cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang):
> [...]
>   Why don't all languages provide an export/import, ala Ada, Modula-2,
> or most (non-standard) Pascal implementations?  Inertia?

Export/import is in Fortran 90.  But you should have seen the public
review complaints about it.  Most people seem to want INCLUDE and
most people seem to oppose export/import.  I think this is programmer
inertia, not language inertia.  If people got used to export/import,
I suspect they would lose interest in INCLUDE.

J. Giles