From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 8d3408f8c3,1cd9f7e5a0d12003 X-Google-Attributes: gid8d3408f8c3,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.204.154.133 with SMTP id o5mr3059218bkw.0.1337701487437; Tue, 22 May 2012 08:44:47 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Path: e27ni40244bkw.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news2.arglkargh.de!news.theremailer.net!frell.theremailer.net!anonymous-x3!anonymous-x2!anonymous From: Fritz Wuehler Comments: This message did not originate from the Sender address above. It was remailed automatically by anonymizing remailer software. Please report problems or inappropriate use to the remailer administrator at . Identifying the real sender is technically impossible. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: condition true or false? -> (-1 < sizeof("test")) References: Message-ID: <0329578bede0b59c2a4ad2436989ca6d@msgid.frell.theremailer.net> Precedence: anon Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 17:43:16 +0200 Mail-To-News-Contact: abuse@frell.theremailer.net Organization: Frell Anonymous Remailer Date: 2012-05-22T17:43:16+02:00 List-Id: Thanks Terence. What you say goes against the neverending drive by most technology people to constantly change things that are mostly fine, and to think new is and old is. I agree with your sentiments. > I prefer the language versions without the unnecesary stuff. There's more > clarity. Sadly, I find most of modern Fortran unreadable whereas I found FORTRAN (at the time) perfectly readable.