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- From: gumby@Cygnus.COM (David V. Henkel-Wallace)
- Subject: new age languages
- In-Reply-To: gjc@mitech.com's message of 15 Sep 92 10:34:45 GMT
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- Date: 15 Sep 92 13:40:11
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- Date: 15 Sep 92 10:34:45 GMT
- From: gjc@mitech.com (George J. Carrette)
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- In a way, what happened is that CL and Scheme went one-up on FORTRAN-77
- in terms of its numeric support. Saints preserve us if a significant
- number of hackers here start taking looks at FORTRAN-90!
-
- I have in front of me a NASA communique encouraging me to upgrade all
- my programs to the new standard. It lists the major improvements in
- Fortran 90. First on the list is the change in name from "FORTRAN" to
- "Fortran".
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- I guess case sensitivity is the result of a kindler, gentler unix nation.
-