Gosh, this was a big surprise. I though Fortran was dead as a Dodo!
Why are people still using it? I was a great fan of it until about
1997 when I moved to Matlab...then LabView. Why the need to resurect
Fortran? Yes, I know C is shite, has no complex numbers etc but that's
not an excuse.

K.

kronecker@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

Resurrect? Riggggghhhhhttttttttt.......

Nice trolling attempt. Well, actually, it was a rather lame attempt.
On the off chance you were actually serious, we're still using Fortran
because (a) it does what we want it to do, (b) we have millions of lines
of code fully operational and we have no need or desire to change it to
some other language, and (c) it's far from dead, has never been anywhere
close to dead, and is not a candidate for being dead anytime in the near
(by geologic scales) future.

J.

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:18:42 -0600, "J. F. Cornwall"
cox.net> wrote:

Luka Djigas wrote:

kronecker@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

It does what I want. Is reason enough.

kronecker@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

Interpreted languages like Matlab have many uses, but in many
cases they aren't fast enough. Labview has completely different
uses.

No it isn't. As of C99, C now has complex numbers.

-- glen

glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:

Well, it's still shite, but for other reasons.

On 2008-08-19, kronecker@yahoo.co.uk yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Actually, C has complex numbers since the C99 standard.

On Aug 20, 5:29 am, glen herrmannsfeldt ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:

In article <17c84186-4008-4532-863f-7ac4e7dc0b0c@a8g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
kronecker@yahoo.co.uk writes:

Yes, for some measure of OO.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran

to re-educate yourself.