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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,56250291936154a0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Gary Scott Subject: Re: Where is the elusive jump command? Date: 2000/03/30 Message-ID: <38E2BEA9.1F3B7C44@flash.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 604139166 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <38D771CA.D41AF9B5@port.ac.uk> <8bq7ku$mc8$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38E0E723.C39C392@quadruscorp.com> <8brfm4$4uc$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38E240D1.DB36C983@quadruscorp.com> <38E2333B.2109F2BB@lmtas.lmco.com> <8bu4ek$412$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@flash.net X-Trace: news.flash.net 954383979 216.215.78.136 (Wed, 29 Mar 2000 20:39:39 CST) Organization: Home MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: scottg@flash.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 20:39:39 CST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-03-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: > > In article <38E2333B.2109F2BB@lmtas.lmco.com>, > Gary Scott 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"). > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ > Before you buy. -- Gary Scott mailto:scottg@flash.net