ambiguous ?

[Norman Diamond]

In article <6591 at ficc.uu.net> peter at ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:

>>	I = RAND(very carefully designed seed)
>>	CALL HOOPY(RAND(0), RAND(0), RAND(0))
>>
>>Will this [FORTRAN] program produce the same output on different machines? 
>>Is this guaranteed?

In article <1989Oct23.094426.4105 at gdt.bath.ac.uk> exspes at gdr.bath.ac.uk (P E Smee) writes:

>NO.  See section 6.6.2 of the Standard.  Why isn't this in the FORTRAN group?

Mr. da Silva's question concerns the relative defects of Fortran and C.
There is no comp.lang.c-vs-fortran, and no comp.lang.relative-defects.
Why is comp.lang.fortran more suitable than comp.lang.c?

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