From: Martin Ambuhl Subject: Re: Fortran Myths & Disinformation Wanted Date: 1999/02/08 Message-ID: <36BF40DD.29B774E9@earthlink.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 442105000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <36B9B8FF.4E34BF22@mixcom.com> <36BA1282.41EA5CB3@earthlink.net> <87679g96ye.fsf@bglbv.my-dejanews.com> <36BC008F.6CF45630@earthlink.net> <79ieht$nep@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net> <36BD50DE.91668508@earthlink.net> <79kvni$il5@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net> <36BEADFE.FAB46BAE@earthlink.net> <79mfc2$nle@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net> X-Accept-Language: en X-Posted-Path-Was: not-for-mail Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-ELN-Date: 8 Feb 1999 19:54:00 GMT X-ELN-Insert-Date: Mon Feb 8 11:55:05 1999 Organization: Nocturnal Aviation Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran James Giles wrote: > > Martin Ambuhl wrote in message <36BEADFE.FAB46...@earthlink.net>... > ... > >Don't be purposely obtuse. You insulted someone doing systems > >programming and language development by saying that "you have not paid > >attention to language design issues and discussions." Had you > >excercised some elementary language skills and read my post you know > >what I meant. > > I intended no insult and posted none. Very good. When I say that you have obviously no familiarity with truth or with the standards of discourse, I mean no insult and post none. > It is quite clear that you have > not paid any attention to language design issues or you would immediately > grasp the following point: Since your statement "that you have not paid any attention to language design issues" has less correspondence to fact, shows less familiarity with the addressed subject, and less research than do any of the cited myths about Fortran, it is clear that your standard for assertions finds nothing objectionable about any of the myths about Fortran. -- Martin Ambuhl (mamb...@earthlink.net) Note: mamb...@tiac.net will soon be inactive