Fortran could learn from C

[Eugene N. Miya]

Just a short note on your comment.

Years ago in grad school, I had a visiting French professor of CS who
had a great little cartoon on this problem.  A man (standing) (FORTRAN
written across his suit) and a woman (sitting) (COBOL written over her)
in a living room with a baby (PL/1) on the floor.  There was a big
picture window and a milkman (ALGOL written across him) with his truck
walking up to the door.  The husband is saying:
	"He doesn't look like me...."
The baby and the milkman share the same face.  I hope I still have this
cartoon buried some place.

Face it, you will never satisify users who can't (won't) change, so you
might as well write a new language for new architectures.

>From the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers:

--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene at ames-aurora.ARPA
  "You trust the `reply' command with all those different mailers out there?"
  "Send mail, avoid follow-ups.  If enough, I'll summarize."
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