Re: one-liner for characater replacement

This is purely uninformed arrogance.

Bah. How do you think I earn my living?

Profit-making enterprises
(vendors of stat/optimzation packages and wall Street to name but two
industry categories (the occasional Bear Stearns has nothing to do
with Fortran's use or the lack of it :-))) have replaced Fortran with
C/C++/Java in its core applicability domain (large scale mathematical
computing) and are doing just fine, thank you.

Wall Street doesn't even know what C/C++/Java or Fortran means or what differentiates them. They gladly pay at least ten times as much as necessary and make a profit in spite of that, not because of it.

Have you seen the reports of mistrades at the Tokyo stock exchange in the past several years, e.g., in comp.risks? You get to guess what language those systems are written in.

Jan
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