Language change and code breaks
Tim Peters
tim.one at home.com
Tue Jul 24 22:32:57 EDT 2001
[Guido]
> How did engineers cope with Fortran? Fortran has long been the
> preferred language for engineers, after C.S. folks moved on to C and
> C++...
[Robin Becker]
> engineers of which I am one, hated it when we only had 6 characters and
> no case sensitivity.
Even Fortran 90 retained case-insensitivity. This page is a hoot, and a
hint of what happens when backward compatibility is taken as absolute:
http://www.llnl.gov/sccd/lc/asci/fpe/fpe.source.html
view-each-vendor-as-a-fork-ly y'rs - tim
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