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- From: john@aquarius.unm.edu (John Prentice)
- Subject: Re: Scientists as Programmers (was Re: Small Language Wanted)
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- Date: Thu, 03 Sep 92 02:33:19 GMT
- Organization: Dept. of Physics & Astro, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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- In article <1992Sep3.020355.20338@u.washington.edu> rons@hardy.u.washington.edu (Ronald Schoenberg) writes:
- >In article <MIKE.92Sep2100445@majestix.cs.uoregon.edu> mike@majestix.cs.uoregon.edu (Michael John Haertel) writes:
- >>In article <MEISSNER.92Sep1202838@curley.osf.org> meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) writes:
- >>> C++.
- >>
- >>Ah, yes. "The most complicated complex number extension ever invented
- >>for any language." (I first heard that from Bart Massey.)
- >
- >Yeah, but in C++ if you don't like the implementation you can write
- >your own. Would you be able to do that in Fortran 90?
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- Fortunately, you wouldn't need to because the designers were not brain
- dead enough to leave in out in the first place :-) .
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- John
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