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- From: jwb@eos.ncsu.edu (John W. Baugh Jr.)
- Subject: Re: Small Language Wanted
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.144444.11414@ncsu.edu>
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- Organization: North Carolina State University
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- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 14:44:44 GMT
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- Mike Coughlin writes:
- > As a user of Fortran, I must protest the idea that Fortran is an
- > old language. Since structured programming concepts were introduced
- > into Fortran many years ago, there are no "modern" programming ideas
- > that are need in Fortran to accomplish its purpose of scientific
- > and mathematical computation. The mathematical notation used by
-
- Of course one can express "scientific and mathematical computations"
- in Fortran, C, TeX, PostScript, etc. However, the tremendous interest
- in "object-oriented" programming among engineers and scientists shows
- that they have finally come to realize that the structure and
- organization of data are important---not exactly one of Fortran's
- strong points.
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- --
- John Baugh
- jwb@eos.ncsu.edu
-