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>>>>> On 10 Dec 90 07:14:57 GMT, john@ghostwheel.unm.edu (John Prentice) said:

John> In article <4390:Dec1003:50:4790@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:

>> >Most professional Fortran programmers groan when they hear that
>> >Fortran 8X (oops, 9X) has a > b. Maybe ``standard mathematical
>> >notation'' isn't as important as familiar notation...
>
>This was the uniform reaction of a large roomful of Fortran programmers
>at Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1987 at a presentation of Fortran 8X

John> I have heard alot of groaning about Fortran Extended being too big, too
John> much like Ada, etc...  I have NEVER heard a room full of Fortran 
John> programmers complain about it however because it uses < instead of
John> .lt. (which is what you said).

Come on, people --- Fortran Extended does not "use" '<' instead of '.LT.'.
Fortran Extended *allows* the use of '<' as an *alternative* to '.LT.'.
If you don't like it, you don't have to use it.

If other people use it and it hurts your eyes to read their code, then
I would be happy to sell you a very clever gadget that will convert
their blasphemous code back to the way God intended it.
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