Re: A petition to J3 apropos FORTRAN's future

From: Dr Chaos (mbkennelSPAMBEGONE_at_NOSPAMyahoo.com)
Date: 03/22/04 

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 21:18:22 +0000 (UTC)

James Giles <jamesgiles@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> analyst41 wrote:
>> "James Giles" <jamesgiles@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
>> news:<t2o7c.12802$PY1.289534@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>...
>>> "Grown up"? I guess that's why most C code looks like it was
>>> written by a talentless eight year old?
>>
>> It sure does - but since Capitalism drives everything in the world,
>> let us give C (to me C means C/C++/JAVA) its due - C being the
>> foundation of Microsoft ORACLE etc. - not to speak of innumerable C
>> applications (including quantitative ones) running in tax-paying
>> corporations does mean something.
>>
>> C won the ultimate contest - it gets used. If we refuse to see that C
>> did something right - then thats truly childish.
>
> If you misidentify what C supposedly did right, you're truly
> counterproductive. C was in the right place at the right time.
> That's pretty much all it did right.

In 1981, it had structures, pointers, malloc, lower case, stream I/O,
and didn't require you to columnate the input source.

Fortran 77's lack of those are pretty annoying. C's lack of real
arrays and integer do loops is also annoying. Why was it necessary to
choose?

Why wasn't there Fortran 80 giving all those features?

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