Jing Guo wrote:
> With discussions on this thread quickly quiet down, I am
> afraid some important issues raised by the petition may have
> lost in hot debates over Fortran vs. C/C++.
...
> I actually work with people like them and hear their complaints
> everyday. They *are* developers we rely on to improve, modernize,
> and develop Fortran software. The complaints were never new,
> except that they were raised by *every* group of developers with
> different emphasis. Also, they were *rearly* properly addressed.
It is difficult to address complaints that don't treat the real
world factually. Most of the complaints on the "Petition to retire
Fortran" were complaints about things that simply are not true.
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