Fortran vs. C for numerical work (SUMMARY)

[Richard A. O'Keefe]

In article <1990Nov30.183032.5420 at ccu.umanitoba.ca>, salomon at ccu.umanitoba.ca (Dan Salomon) writes:
> I remember once trying to translate a FORTRAN fast-fourier analysis
> procedure into PL/I.  Sounds like a piece of cake, right?  The problem
> was that the FORTRAN procedure accepted arrays with not only any size
> of dimensions, but also with any number of dimensions.

I don't recall that being legal in F77.  To be sure, I've met compilers
that didn't bother to check, and I think there was a special case for
DATA statements, but argument passing?
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