Conformant Arrays in C

[Carsten Bormann]

In article <694 at cresswell.quintus.UUCP> ok at quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
() C++ is the Fortran 8X of object-oriented languages.

What a piece of nonsense.

[For the uninitiated: C++ is not an ``object-oriented language'', it is
 a language that retains the spirit of C and that among other (often more
 important) improvements on C facilitates object-oriented programming.  If
 you compare the position of C++ in the development of the C language to
 the position of a FORTRAN dialect in the history of the FORTRAN language,
 you're better off using FORTRAN-77 as a reference.  Somehow, the recent
 comp.lang.c discussions about ``D'' (e.g. about conformant arrays) seem
 to have picked up the spirit of FORTRAN 8X.]
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Technical University of Berlin (West, of course...)
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