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,fc050a66c3b5d87d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,86e8c626be2471ae X-Google-Attributes: gid1094ba,public From: Richard Maine Subject: Re: F9X twister & ADA (was: n-dim'l vectors) Date: 2000/04/06 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 607848401 Sender: maine@vega.qnet.com References: <8cctts$ujr$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38EA0440.1ECBC158@ncep.noaa.gov> <38ED4ECA.ADB698C9@sdynamix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: 7 Apr 2000 04:07:49 GMT, 56k-palm-00-25.dial.qnet.com Organization: The Maines User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) XEmacs/21.1 (Bryce Canyon) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-04-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: bv 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