Re: Where is the elusive jump command?

[Gary Scott <scottg@flash.net>]

Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
> In article <38E2333B.2109F2BB@lmtas.lmco.com>,
>   Gary Scott <Gary.L.Scott@lmtas.lmco.com> wrote:
> > This Fortran jab sounds like someone unfamiliar with Fortran
> 95.
> > Fortran is now a general purpose language with most of the
> modern
> > constructs that you might require.  Many current Fortran users
> write
> > quite high quality code, even non-CS engineers and scientists.
> 
> The percentage of Fortran code currently written using Fortran
> 95 is small. Furthermore, I have seen a lot of Fortran 95 code
> which is still very much in old style. Old habits die hard, and
> fewer people learn Fortran these days :-)

Actually, there are about 10 Fortran 90/95 compiler companies in
business at the moment. Fortran simply gets left out of market surveys
(of "programmers") because of its user base being scientists/engineers
primarily.  It is estimated that Fortran's user base is presently the
highest it has ever been and still growing according to sales figures,
it simply isn't growing anywhere as fast as some other notable
languages.  Part of the reason has been delays in standard development
activities (infighting by featurists wanting to make it general purpose
vs "traditionalists" wanting to limit it to number crunching and
believing that it's getting "too big").

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