Xref: utzoo comp.lang.c:10974 comp.lang.fortran:830 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!mordor!joyce!sri-unix!garth!smryan From: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: C vs. FORTRAN Summary: Forward into the past. Message-ID: <831@garth.UUCP> Date: 28 Jun 88 20:21:00 GMT References: <3136@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <19633@watmath.waterloo.edu> Reply-To: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan) Organization: INTERGRAPH (APD) -- Palo Alto, CA Lines: 9 > 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.