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Article #4543Re: Is FORTRAN a viable language?
From: J. Giles
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 20:12
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 20:12
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In article <1hqnn7INNfac@shelley.u.washington.edu>, chew@accel.aa.washington.edu (Gilbert Chew) writes: |> [...] |> However, while perusing the newsgroups for help |> and information in buying said compiler, I noticed |> that the C/C++ newsgroup seems to have about |> 100 times the traffic of the FORTRAN newsgroup! If you actually look at those newsgroups, you will find that most of the traffic consists of trivial questions and long discussions about issues which *should be* well defined and easy to learn/use/describe in any really well designed language. In other words, it's not clear whether the volume of traffic in those groups is because of greater popularity of the language or because of poorer design. -- J. Giles
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!caen!hellgate.utah.edu!lanl!cochiti.lanl.gov!jlg From: jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (J. Giles) Subject: Re: Is FORTRAN a viable language? Message-ID: <1993Jan4.201229.12073@newshost.lanl.gov> Sender: news@newshost.lanl.gov Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory References: <1hqnn7INNfac@shelley.u.washington.edu> Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 20:12:29 GMT Lines: 16