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> The Fortran community and the Fortran committees don't have the kinds of
> resources that the DoD threw at Ada. Contrary to Giles's assertion that
> much of Fortran development consists of inventing bizarrely inconsistent
> and untried features out of whole cloth, however, the Fortran committee
> is able to bootstrap some of the DoD investment in Ada.
Coying Ada is not necessarily a good thing. Particularly for things that
Ada doesn't do well (like, say, generic programming). Not that there's
been any real effort to actually even copy Ada for any of the features
under present consideration.
--
J. Giles
"I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software
design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously
no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated
that there are no obvious deficiencies." -- C. A. R. Hoare
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