At 11:10 12-12-97 -0500, you wrote:
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>Why be on the defensive ??
>
>Lets take back Fortran's rightful due:
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>The answer : One thousand per-cent inter-callability with C
>we have to hug C to us with hoops of steel, never letting go,
>follow it through every twist and turn recommended by the
>fashion police.
>
>Let Fortran remain small and elegant, Not follow idiotic
>bandwagons such as pointers and OOP which are considered good
>today and bad tomorrow.
>
>Let Fortran do all clean,elegant, human things and CALL C
>for all ugly,gobbledygook,MACHINE-RELATED things, such as
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>Command Line Arguments
>
>System Calls
>
>read/write Access to proprietary relational tables
>
>Access to non-traditional files (ZIP files, e.g.)
>
>access to GUIs, GRAPHICS packages
All this is OK with me, provided that a consistent interlaguage interface
is available. Link C library with my Fortran program, etc.
In that case I use 'system()' or 'getarg()' in my Fortran application.
So why not add a few functions to the Fortran library?
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