From: vtailor AT gte DOT net Subject: Re: Sergeys PGCC port gives problems 7 Jun 1998 21:30:52 -0700 Message-ID: <199806072328.SAA11653.cygnus.gnu-win32@smtp1.mailsrvcs.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Cc: vtailor AT gte DOT net > Alexander Klinsky (a9004590 AT unet DOT univie DOT ac DOT at) > Sat, 6 Jun 1998 11:50:22 +0200 (MSZ) > >> Gee, the last time I programmed in Fortran, you were in high school. As >> I recall, I decided to learn C at the time by rewriting the Fortran in C. >> It wasn't very difficult at all, and the resulting code actually worked. >> >> It was the code for the Purdue University Parser Generating System, one >> of the ancestors of YACC. >> >> Why do people still use Fortran ? > >Why not ?!!!! > >BTW Do not waste bandwidth with this kind of silly statements!!! > >Dr. Alexander KLinsky >Dep. of theoretical chemistry >University of Vienna >Austria >- As the former editor of ACM SIGPLAN (Special Interest Group on Programming Languages) Notices, I have a license to make such comments. Since you identify yourself as a `Dr.' in the Dept. of theoretical chemistry defending the use of a standard from 1977 as though it were academically respectible, you should also take care making unprofessional statements on a public forum. It might be bad for your career. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".