Fortran pros and cons (was Re: Coding style article with interesting section on white space)

2005-01-30 Thread beliavsky
Michael Tobis wrote: Fortran programmers are generally happy with the portability of the language. Until they try to port something...? Honestly, I can't imagine where anyone would get this impression. From the fact that Fortran has been used on hundreds of platforms and that many

Re: Fortran pros and cons (was Re: Coding style article with interesting section on white space)

2005-01-30 Thread beliavsky
Michael Tobis wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Tobis wrote: Fortran 90/95 is more expressive than Fortran 77 in many ways, as described in ... http://www.nr.com/CiP97.pdf . ... expresses more science per line of code and per programming workday. The example shown on p 10