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From: Mike Silva <mjsilva@jps.net>
Subject: Re: Fortran Myths & Disinformation Wanted
Date: 1999/02/11
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How ironic that Dr.B.Voh chose this particular thread to toss his
stinkbomb into comp.lang.ada.  Is this something EFPK?

essoft@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> It gets worse exponentially -- a few years back I saw a rotational dynamics problem
> OOPed in ADA and in a "Fortran style**" ADA  -- thirty pages of code vs page and a
> half, that would've shrunk further had it been in Fortran...  Just like a picture
> is worth a thousand words, so are the little parallel code snippets that should
> periodically be shipped to disciples elsewhere... after all, seeing is believing!?
> 
> **  Before giving in to the packaging urge and start hiding everything in sight in
> where_in_hell_is _that damn_thing_package.  Oh yes, they love verbosity -- you're
> lucky if you can find some actual code here and there...
> 
> --
> Dr.B.Voh