Re: Two Questions about "strlen", "strcat" and "strcpy"

beliavsky_at_aol.com
Date: 08/31/04 

Date: 31 Aug 2004 10:22:38 -0700

jacob navia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> wrote in message news:<ch1kdi$4oa$1@news-reader2.wanadoo.fr>...
 
> C is becoming obsolete, as FORTRAN did. Of course there are still places
> where FORTRAN is good today, and it is still used.

Since Fortran has not been spelled with all caps as of the 1990
standard, you probably don't know much about the current features and
usage of Fortran. People are writing NEW code in Fortran 90 and 95 --
browse comp.lang.fortran. If Fortran were dead, there would not be
about 10 Fortran 95 compiler vendors, including relatively recent
entries like Intel and Pathscale (see
http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/Fortran/Compilers/
).

Fortran market share would be higher if the 1990 standard, which fixed
most of Fortran's deficiencies, had appeared sooner. I agree that even
an old language can evolve, but for C that role may be filled by C++.

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