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- From: john@aquarius.unm.edu (John Prentice)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
- Subject: Re: Fortran 90 Advocacy
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- Date: 27 Aug 92 16:38:36 GMT
- References: <17e86cINNma7@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <BURLEY.92Aug26123556@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <1992Aug27.085114.2339@news.uni-stuttgart.de>
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- In article <1992Aug27.085114.2339@news.uni-stuttgart.de> ucaa2385@ruscvx.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Peter Hermann) writes:
- >
- >Fortran comes closer and closer to Ada but will never reach it.
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- I don't see Fortran even on the same evolutionary path as Ada and I am
- rather thankful for it! Look at the yawn that Ada has created out there
- in computing land and you can see that I am not alone in thinking that it
- was a nice idea gone awry.
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- John
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