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From: rrr@naucse.UUCP (Bob Rose )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C vs. FORTRAN
Summary: malloc?
Message-ID: <774@naucse.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jul 88 16:41:53 GMT
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Organization: Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
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In article <892@garth.UUCP>, smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan) writes:
> The big deal is that anything that can be done in C can be done in
> fortran--it's just a question of how understandable is the resulting
> muckety mess.

Lets see malloc or alloca[1] in fortran without some low level routines
in some other language. Also recursion, yes you can make your own stack
but how big do you make this stack?
                            -bob

[1] alloca normally need to be written in assembly on most machines and
some need it built into the compiler (inline or whatever).