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Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 21:36:29 +0200
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Nasser Abbasi:

> Well, at least one thing is common between Ada and Fortran: Both are case 
> INSENSITIVE.

Two other points in common are readability (or, non-cryptic syntax) and (Fortran: 77+ ?) 
full-bracketing (conditional or loop statements terminated by END). Both things are 
extremely helpful for revising code, which is crucial for scientific programming, and 
separate the pre- (Pascal, C) and post-1977 compiled languages.

G.

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