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Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:20:36 +0200
From: Toon Moene <t...@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>
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Subject: Re: public comment on fortran 2008
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Gary Scott wrote:

> I think it also reasonable to try to assess such things as why certain 
> application domains have pulled away from Fortran over the years.  Often 
> times that was due to lack of certain features or maybe the glacial pace 
> of change (improvement).  So one of my goals would be to target those 
> features which may answer some of those "we don't use Fortran because 
> you can't do x".

I agree such research would be useful.  My limited foray into such, 
unfortunately, displays: "Our management preferred language X".

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