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In article <8258@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>Bizarre, peculiar, idiosyncratic
>notation (such as is common in C) is just an impediment.
>
>Fortran is far from being too close to mathematical notation: it is
>not close enough.  It is, however, as close as the charcter set of
>those early times allowed.  It is certainly closer than C (and this
>is one of the factors in Fortran's favor).

Jim, if you'll read the past 20 messages or so you'll see that this
is precisely one of the things we've been discussing. I have
already asserted that neither C nor Fortran provides much direct
math support, that to the extent that they do the notation is very
close to mathematical notation, and that the only real difference
that I can see is that in Fortran power is an infix operator
as is typical in mathematics whereas in C it is a function and
therefore prefixed. This is an awfully small difference, isn't it?
So instead of naked assertions like the one quoted, how about some
evidence and examples? And remember, we're talking about mathematical
expressions, not aliasing, and not declaration syntax.