From: Martin Ambuhl <mamb...@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Fortran Myths & Disinformation Wanted
Date: 1999/02/06
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bg...@my-dejanews.com wrote:

> And is this thread at all about squealing? I thought it was about
> identifying common misconceptions to be debunked in an information
> campaign. There is no reason the supporters of C and Cobol couldn't
> do the same, to the benefit of us all. 

My point was that I have been programming in Fortran for over 30 years
and have never heard a number of these "common misconceptions."  They
are not "common".  There does seem to be some sort of paranoia in this
newsgroup.  In the other comp.lang.* newsgroups I very rarely see
complaints about others bad-mouthing their languages.  This form of
whining seems largely a property of comp.lang.fortran.  Neither do the
anti-C postings in comp.lang.fortran have any parallel of anti-Fortran
postings in comp.lang.c.  It is time for us Fortran programmers to grow
up, stop whining, and write code.



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