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Article #101Re: Modula-3, Fortran, Numbers & Aliens
From: Jim Giles
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 18:37
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 18:37
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In article <ROCKWELL.92Apr6233655@socrates.umd.edu>, rockwell@socrates.umd.edu (Raul Deluth Miller-Rockwell) writes: |> [...] But the Fortran implementation will |> be considerably more complex, and many of the details will be specific |> to the operating system under which Fortran is running. The only things in standard Fortran which are system dependent are those which must be system dependent on _ALL_ languages. Things like the maximum size of an array, the precision of numbers, the available character set are not things that J can magically avoid dependency on. J. Giles
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!hellgate.utah.edu!lanl!cochiti.lanl.gov!jlg From: jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Modula-3, Fortran, Numbers & Aliens Message-ID: <1992Apr7.183717.14733@newshost.lanl.gov> Date: 7 Apr 92 18:37:17 GMT Article-I.D.: newshost.1992Apr7.183717.14733 References: <1992Mar15.221628.24491@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM> <ks8boqINN8ht@network.ucsd.edu> <ROCKWELL.92Apr6233655@socrates.umd.edu> Sender: news@newshost.lanl.gov Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Lines: 12