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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Mathematical expression syntax (was: C vs. Fortran)
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Date: 30 Jun 88 21:26:25 GMT
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) )
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In article <20509@beta.lanl.gov> jlg@beta.lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>The parts of Fortran which represent scalar mathematical expressions
>do a creditable job of keeping to traditional mathematical syntax.

Yeah, like	X = X + 1
		SNARF(IY) = 2 * (ZZ ** 3 - FLOAT( IY )) / SQRT( 2.0 )
(Quick, was that an array assignment or a statement function definition?)

Could this discussion of Fortran and "mathematical syntax" please be
moved out of the C newsgroup?  Better yet, could the whole "my
language is better than yours" discussion cease?  The original
question was whether a particular shop should perform a wholesale
conversion of existing Fortran code to C.  A useful answer to such
a question would have very little to do with which language is
closest to mathematical syntax, whatever that is supposed to mean.