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Re: just how bad is Fortran?



On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues wrote:

> Sorry, I can't resist ;-)
> 
> fortran (77) is horrible. Well, it _was_ ok, Backus was a pioneer, etc. But we
> are in the end of the '90s (and I thought only *my* profs were forcing
> students to use it!)

But it sure beats the Fortran II of the '60s.  

(Hey, there are still some of us old guys around who used to use that
stuff.)

Bob

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