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From: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Should I convert FORTRAN code to C?
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Date: 28 Jun 88 20:09:48 GMT
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>> > type.  Complex is more than just a pair of reals, [...]
>> 
>> It's both more and less powerful.  To put it another way, FORTRAN's
>> COMPLEX data type is NOT an adequate replacement for the ability to
>> define custom data types.

C does not provide custom data types either. It permits new structures,
but those are not orthogonal to the primitive types: no new operators,
no new casts, (on some implementation) no new assignments, ...