Re: Small Language Wanted

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From: John W. Baugh Jr.
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 14:44

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Mike Coughlin writes:
>   As a user of Fortran, I must protest the idea that Fortran is an 
> old language. Since structured programming concepts were introduced
> into Fortran many years ago, there are no "modern" programming ideas
> that are need in Fortran to accomplish its purpose of scientific
> and mathematical computation. The mathematical notation used by 

Of course one can express "scientific and mathematical computations"
in Fortran, C, TeX, PostScript, etc.  However, the tremendous interest
in "object-oriented" programming among engineers and scientists shows
that they have finally come to realize that the structure and
organization of data are important---not exactly one of Fortran's
strong points.

--
John Baugh
jwb@eos.ncsu.edu

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