petition to retire Fortran

[Mike Walters]

Madhusudan Singh wrote:
> On Monday 23 February 2004 00:24, E. Robert Tisdale
> (E.Robert...@jpl.nasa.gov) held forth in comp.lang.fortran
> (<40398E75...@jpl.nasa.gov>):
>
>
>>PETITION TO RETIRE FORTRAN:
>>
>>http://www.fortranstatement.com/
>
>
> Troll alert.
>
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>
> If you do not like Fortran 77/90/95, don't use it.
>
> Your petition makes about as much sense as McDonald's making a petition
> against the existence of the Atkins diet.

I must de-lurk to agree. Mr. Tisdale, if you hate Fortran so much, why
do you keep coming to this news group? I don't like C, but I don't go
to comp.lang.c and complain about what a terrible language C is.

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