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: dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner) Subject: Re: Where is the elusive jump command? Date: 2000/03/30 Message-ID: <8c06dc$8q62@news.cis.okstate.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 604469625 References: <38D771CA.D41AF9B5@port.ac.uk> <8bq7ku$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> <38E36673.5C82463F@lmtas.lmco.com> Organization: Oklahoma State University User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.2 (Linux) Reply-To: dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-03-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 08:36:35 -0600, Gary Scott wrote: >> 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. Overloading. Some form of Fortran's overloading is on my list for my high-level Intercal. The type/kind system. Using integer constants for types is very cryptic. >> 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, Implicit none is illegal in standard Fortran 77, though it's a common extension. -- David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org Only a nerd would worry about wrong parentheses with square brackets. But that's what mathematicians are. -- Dr. Burchard, math professor at OSU