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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Where is the elusive jump command?
Date: 2000/03/29
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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 :-)


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