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From: jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Fortran vs C for computations
Message-ID: <4092@lanl.gov>
Date: 23 Sep 88 21:05:57 GMT
References: <465@quintus.UUCP>
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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From article <465@quintus.UUCP>, by ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe):
> That's not what I was TRYING to claim, it is precisely what I DID claim.
> The claim that "cpp can be applied to A Fortran program" is normally to
> be understood as meaning "to every Fortran program", which I denied.

When I _mean_ 'every', I _say_ 'every'.  When I say 'a', I mean 'a';
that is, 'there exist Fortran programs (at least one) to which cpp can
be applied'.  Since that's the way I use the language, I quite naturally 
assume that everyone else does too (most do).  'A Fortran program' is 
_not_ normally understood to be 'every Fortran program'.  If it were, 
I would have difficulty discussing individual programs.

J. Giles
Los Alamos