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: <4092@lanl.gov> Date: 23 Sep 88 21:05:57 GMT References: <465@quintus.UUCP> Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Lines: 14 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