From: seas.gwu.edu!mfeldman@uunet.uu.net (Michael Feldman)
Subject: Re: QUERY ABOUT MONITOR
Date: 4 Aug 93 02:43:42 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1993Aug4.024342.20454@seas.gwu.edu> (raw)
In article <2536.237.uupcb@nitelog.com> michael.hagerty@nitelog.com (Michael Ha
gerty) writes:
>On Mon, 2 Aug 1993, Michael Feldman posted a response to Jonathan Schilling:
>
>MF. Another example: are there any vendors out there who've tried to go after
> . a piece of the Fortran-oriented market by mapping its multidimensional
> . constrained arrays in column-major form? The LRM allows any old storage
> . mapping. Teachers like me explain this seeming gaffe by pointing out that
> . a compiler oriented at the Fortran crowd _could_ use column-major
> . storage to interface with old Fortran codes,
>
>Boy and do I have a pant-load of well-test old Fortran codes I would like to
>reuse ala "plug and play". But nooooooo, array mapping is not compatible.
>So I have to lift the hood and thus am forced to translate this stuff to Ada
>for no other reason... I really like writing Ada, but I do not like figuring
>out someone else's Fortran just so I can translate it to Ada...
>
Wow! And here I thought all my ranting about Fortran was just "academic"
and "theoretical" stuff. :-)
Mike Feldman
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