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Article #4476Poor programming (was: Block Data is evil)
From: Howard S Shubs
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 16:15
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 16:15
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In <1993Jan23.151052.6593@hubcap.clemson.edu> jtbell@hubcap.clemson.edu (Jon Bell) writes: >In article <C1AMpC.BAt@umassd.edu> hshubs@cis.umassd.edu (Howard S Shubs) writes: [poor method for doing memory management from FORTRAN deleted to prevent its spread] >>You're not seriously suggesting that this be used in production code, >>are you? If you are, is this intended as job security? >It's already been done. When I was a grad student in experimental >particle physics, I worked with CERN's HYDRA library, which implemented >dynamic memory allocation in FORTRAN using the same basic idea. I >think this package is still widely used in particle physics. That's meaningless. Just because something has been done poorly is not a reason to continue to do it poorly. Someone has to maintain that code. -- Howard S Shubs hshubs@bix.com For to win 100 victories in 100 The Denim Adept hshubs@cis.umassd.edu battles is not the acme of skill.
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!noc.near.net!nic.umass.edu!umassd.edu!hshubs From: hshubs@cis.umassd.edu (Howard S Shubs) Subject: Poor programming (was: Block Data is evil) Message-ID: <C1BEIn.8MA@umassd.edu> Sender: usenet@umassd.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth References: <1993Jan21.074755.14939@arcetri.astro.it> <1993Jan22.183106.15813@newshost.lanl.gov> <C1AMpC.BAt@umassd.edu> <1993Jan23.151052.6593@hubcap.clemson.edu> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 16:15:58 GMT Lines: 20