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- From: roth@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Pete Roth)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
- Subject: Re: Is FORTRAN a viable language?
- Message-ID: <29250@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 12:55:44 GMT
- References: <1hqnn7INNfac@shelley.u.washington.edu> <1993Jan4.201229.12073@newshost.lanl.gov>
- Reply-To: roth@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Pete Roth)
- Organization: The David Taylor Model Basin
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- In comp.lang.fortran, jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (J. Giles) writes:
- >u (Gilbert Chew) writes:
- >|> that the C/C++ newsgroup seems to have about
- >|> 100 times the traffic of the FORTRAN newsgroup!
- >
- >If you actually look at those newsgroups, you will find that most of
- >the traffic consists of trivial questions and long discussions about
- >issues which *should be* well defined and easy to learn/use/describe
- >in any really well designed language. In other words, it's not clear
- >whether the volume of traffic in those groups is because of greater
- >popularity of the language or because of poorer design.
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- A third possibility: the concepts of the language are new, and so the
- terms "easy to learn/use/describe" are not yet applicable. When we all
- understand what virtual methods, templates, overloading, private|protected|
- public, friend, class, etc. mean, *then* the issues will be well defined.
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- Me, I'm just lurking on the C++ fora, tryina figure it out...
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- Grace & peace, pete
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- Peter N Roth roth@oasys.dt.navy.mil
- Do what you can with what you have where you are. - D L Moody.
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