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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID 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: <38E36673.5C82463F@lmtas.lmco.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 604358927 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> <38E3490F.82EB4B32@maths.unine.ch> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: LMTAS Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-03-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Gautier wrote: > > Robert Dewar wrote: > > > 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. > > A reason is the huge mass of <= 77 Fortran code in place. > An engineer will have to re-work, expand an exisiting Fortran 77 > code and often will (re-)learn programming in that activity > by imitation of the existing code. > Another reason is that the "modern" features (90+) are not > very intuitive to the eye - a sort of over-verbose C syntax > with contorsions to keep compatibility with Fortran 77. More bunk. Most of the "modern" features of Fortran 90/95 were borrowed from Ada and Modula. And many areas are less-verbose than Ada, but certainly less cryptic than C. > Would I have to program in Fortran, I would stick to the > 77 syntax which is relatively simple and readable with > many modern structures. It is already somewhat difficult > to keep a minimal security with 77 (E.g. forgetting "implicit none", > headaches with the variable visibility, "common"s & Co). > For bigger or new programs, or more complex data structures the best > to do is to acquire/download an Ada95 compiler and use f2a.pl to > translate parts. > ______________________________________________________ > Gautier -- http://members.xoom.com/gdemont/gsoft.htm