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Normally, even when I don't agree with Jim Giles (which is to say,
most of the time) he at least makes sense.  This time however,...

>II) Feature differences.
>
>  a) Pointer call by reference vs. Fortran parameter passing.
>
>  b) Structs, Unions, dynamic memory, pointers, recursive procedures

What about

c) math intrinsics and built-in I/O (including implied do-loops)

d) equivalence

e) run-time dimensionable arrays

f) entry statements



Then there are the curious two statements

>but there
>are no new Fortran features which C doesn't already have a version
>of.

and

>the Fortran 90 standard
>makes use of these to provide generic functions which C doesn't have.

Well, the first statement is just plain wrong, and the second statement
is a counterexample.  Fortran 90 a subset of C?  (Barternder, give me one of
whatever he's having!)  Or did we also forget about array slices and the
bizarre control constructs which can be used to manipulate them?

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