Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!lanl!jlg From: jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: Fortran vs C for computations Message-ID: <3962@lanl.gov> Date: 21 Sep 88 19:46:54 GMT References: <459@quintus.UUCP> Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Lines: 15 From article <459@quintus.UUCP>, by ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe): > it is NOT possible to apply cpp usefully to "a" standard Fortran > program which already exists (which I have been denying). I have several standard Fortran programs which already exist to which cpp can be usefully applied. What you are trying to claim is that is is possible to find a standard conforming Fortran program (presumably more than one) which causes cpp to generate bad results. No one has ever denied that. But even thos can be rewritten to avoid cpp's problems. Failing that - write a preprocessor in standard conforming Fortran. Then ship your preprocessor to any site that you ship your other source to. J. Giles Los Alamos