C vs. FORTRAN

[Bob Rose]

In article <892 at garth.UUCP>, smryan at garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan) writes:
> The big deal is that anything that can be done in C can be done in
> fortran--it's just a question of how understandable is the resulting
> muckety mess.

Lets see malloc or alloca[1] in fortran without some low level routines
in some other language. Also recursion, yes you can make your own stack
but how big do you make this stack?
                            -bob

[1] alloca normally need to be written in assembly on most machines and
some need it built into the compiler (inline or whatever).