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Old February 4th 04, 08:06 PM
Dave Platt
 
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In article . net,
Peter O. Brackett wrote:

From Fortran to C, what a waste of coding time... and how many errors
were introduced in the translation? Heh, heh. :-)


"Make your peace with FORTRAN, for it is as perennial as crabgrass."

Many would feel... What a crime?

What's wrong with perfectly good Fortran?

BTW... there's nothing wrong with "GOTO"s that aren't readily fixed with
simple matching "COMEFROM" statements!


Heh. Real programmers used Assigned GOTO statements (or the even
studlier COBOL "ALTER" verb).

(grin, duck, run away very very fast....)

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