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From: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: C vs. FORTRAN
Summary: Forward into the past.
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Date: 28 Jun 88 20:21:00 GMT
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>  Rather than converting Fortran to C, or Cobol, or PL/1, it might be
>more worthwhile to look at some of the more flexible languages such
>as C++ or ADA or their future incarnations. Hopefully, the relearning
>cycle and upgrade path for these will be somewhat less steep after
>the initial conversion, as the basic compiler is less liable to change,
>but rather different packages of 'includes' will come along to provide
>extensions and new features.

That was the idea behind Algol68, from twenty years back. I think Aad
was a bit ahead of time.