Re: F9X twister & ADA (was: n-dim'l vectors)

[Richard Maine <maine@qnet.com>]

bv <bvoh@sdynamix.com> writes:

> What a slaughter of Fortran, showing every symptom of design by ignorant
> and incompetent committee. What happened, where they too busy with
> themselves to bother and learn from ADA??

Perhaps the committee was full of people who were too busy insulting each
other instead of getting constructive work done?  If so, it would seem
that we have a new candidate who would fit right in.  :-(

In seriousness, those who can't learn to work well with others (including
some with opposing viewpoints), do not tend to help progress on such
things - no matter how brilliant they may be.  Offering gratuituous insults
is not generally a good way to start.  Do you make comments like that to
the people you work with regularly?  If so, does this help them get their
jobs done?

Yes, by the way, the committee certainly looked at ADA.  And it shows in
quite a few places.

The elided sample is not, of course, the only way to write the code in
question.  Nor is it particularly close to the way I'd suggest writing
it.  I rarely write out interface bodies - that's what modules are for.

If you hadn't just insulted several people that I respect, I might
offer an illustration of how I'd write the code in question...but you
haven't left me feeling in a mood to be helpful....

-- 
Richard Maine
maine@qnet.com