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- Submitted-by: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
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- In article <1s6v0bINN9ei@ftp.UU.NET> pma@rutherford.ac.uk (Peter Allan) writes:
- >The spirit of Fortran 77 has to be bent to get a POSIX interface and
- >I had great hopes that a Fortran 90 one would be a great deal better.
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- I think the very notion that a POSIX binding should be feasible for an
- arbitrary procedural programming language is in error.
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- Back in the early days of UNIX, a large fraction of the system calls
- were supported in the UNIX Fortran library, but people who tried
- doing much UNIX system programming in Fortran (and there were a lot
- of us) found out pretty quickly that it was a mistake to try to use
- the language for purposes for which it was ill suited, and switched
- to C for serious system programming. In Fortran programs we still
- occasionally used the system() function but that was about it.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 31, Number 56
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