Richard Maine wrote:
> before I was on J3). Do realize, however, that by far the biggest
> reason for the delay was not to "perfect" anything, but was rather
> to get agreement on what to do at all. Not that this "excuses"
I have read Metcalf's Foreword to 'Numerical Recipes in Fortran 90',
though NR seems to not be popular here.
> Correction to a common wording error. "Binary" means base 2.
> People seem to me using it incorrectly more often than correctly
> any more. I suppose that it will eventually loose it's original
> meaning and we'll need to come up with something else to mean
> base 2. I can see a stretch of binary as being a synonym for
> unformatted. But I'm afraid I don't see how the word binary
> can plausibly be interpreted to mean lacking record structure.
ok, accepted. So we have formatted files, unformatted files and
what? Why can binary not just be a gay word :-)
> But yes, I know what you really mean. I made it one of the items
> that I choose to push for strongly in f2k. It's in the f2k
> draft.
> ...
> That is also one of the high-priority things that are in the f2k
> draft.
Good news. Or bad- I will have to buy an expensive f2k compiler.
Klaus
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