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In article <ROCKWELL.92Apr8002239@socrates.umd.edu>, rockwell@socrates.umd.edu (Raul Deluth Miller-Rockwell) writes:
|> [...]
|> You misunderstand.  I was talking specifically about the case of
|> writing tools for generating and/or debugging code.  There is no
|> requirement that all languages must use system dependent features to
|> implement these sorts of tools.
|> 
|> Or are you saying that there are system-independent ways of
|> implementing these sorts of tools in Fortran?

Any such tools that are applicable to J could also be applied to 
Fortran to the same degree.  Debugging, for example, cannot be done
for either language in a system independent way unless you interpret
the source.  Source interpretation can be applied to Fortran.

J. Giles