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From: hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer)
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Subject: Re: Languages for number crunching
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> In the meantime, as you say, we seem to be stuck with FORTRAN.
> -- 
> D Gary Grady

  I was at a seminar on large scale scientific computing given by Bob
Voigt (of ICASE) and he was asked what language would be used for
number crunching in the year 2000.  His response was that he didn't
know what the language would be --- but he predicted that it would
be called FORTRAN.
--henry schaffer