On Tue, 5 May 1998 09:13:25 -0700 "Loren P. Meissner"
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> I gave a talk last Thursday for the CS Colloquium at Sonoma State
> University (50 miles north of San Francisco). My title was, "You can
> keep your Java; the new Fortran subsets are my cup of tea." Mostly I
> tried to put the current Fortran situation in historical perspective -
> to remind them that 20-25 years ago computers were still being used
> mostly to compute - then Fortran 90 came along which PERMITS but does
> not REQUIRE modern programming practices - and finally we have the
> subsets which are clean and inexpensive, but do not solve the legacy
> problem.
> =
> Loren P. Meissner
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what was the response like? as i may have mentioned in another post
a negative response is quite often due to a perception of
fortran as essentially 66/77.
one of the mech eng staff was quite surprised when i had a
chat about f90 with him and my reasons for wanting to use it to
teach introductory programming.
he quickly bought a compiler (real money!) and moved some of
his c and c++ code to f90.
he is sticking with f90.
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dick Hendrickson
> > Sent: Monday, May 04, 1998 10:11 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: helping to promote fortran 90
> . . .
> > Getting people to teach Fortran 90, instead of F77, is one way to
> start.
>
> Dick Hendrickson
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