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- From: Doug Gwyn <gwyn@smoke.brl.mil>
-
- In article <744@longway.TIC.COM> From: buck@drax.gsfc.nasa.gov (Loren Buchanan)
- >Why should PASCALers, FORTRANers, etc. be coerced into giving up
- >their favorite language. I regularly use three different langauges,
- >and I expect that the operating environment I am working under will
- >not impede my use of these languages.
-
- That's not what we're talking about. Pascal and Fortran can be
- fully implemented in a UNIX environment. You are not being asked
- to "give up" those languages. What I am saying is that you should
- not insist on using a language in an application domain for which
- it is ill suited. Fortran is not an appropriate choice for systems
- programming applications in a UNIX environment. While it is
- perhaps possible to devise a complete 1003.1 binding for Fortran
- (I suspect it wouldn't be possible for BASIC), there is no real need
- to do so. On the other end of the spectrum, Ada has its own notions
- of tasking that don't mesh well with UNIX's process model. Since
- the promulgators of Ada have insisted for years that Ada programs
- must not use extensions to the language, I suggest that holding them
- to their word would have been quite appropriate.
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 20, Number 71
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