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Subject: Re: Ada vs Fortran for scientific applications
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"Gautier" <gautier@fakeaddress.nil> wrote in message
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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.

Except that Algol had those by 1960 and PL/I in 1966.