Piles of plusses (was Re: comma

[mcdonald at uxe.cso.uiuc.edu]

>   In FORTRAN it is STILL allowed to use variables that have not been 
>declared.   This is a practise that should be eliminated from all serious
>programming languages, due to the ease with which bugs can be created.

It is not a matter of "being still allowed" --it is that automatic
generation of variable is the heart and soul of Fortran. Many,
many supposedly "more advanced" languages such as Pascal and C
STILL require you to declare all variables - just like assembly
language. Fortran and Basic, apparently alone, have the computer
do the work for you (in the most common cases) [although C 
will in some cases allow you to do without declaring some things
to be int, the most common being functions].

Doug McDonald