Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Ian Collins Newsgroups: comp.programming Subject: Re: fortran 77 errors Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:58:10 +1200 Lines: 16 Message-ID: <96foekFmtvU13@mid.individual.net> References: <4e025412$0$1945$bbae4d71@news.suddenlink.net> <4e026d84$0$952$bbae4d71@news.suddenlink.net> <4e028df0$0$19997$bbae4d71@news.suddenlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net FQ1xRqq7weMG73+jMk/MJAL8w7XUoYiYkVim2EIplpY0jRMMvd Cancel-Lock: sha1:A/IS2eXxvlEhlr9VO9AuDlKiZfQ= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20101021 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.4 In-Reply-To: <4e028df0$0$19997$bbae4d71@news.suddenlink.net> Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.programming:498 On 06/23/11 12:50 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote: > Patricia Shanahan wrote: > >> What type of problems? Depending on the issues you are facing, Fortran >> may not be any improvement over C. > > Mostly syntactic and algorithmic problems. I have a copy of kandr2 that > helps some. But until recently I would have no idea how to program in int > main() a simple calculation of an arithmetic mean. I know the code now with > help from others. Maybe this is a lack of experience issue. Lack of experience? Come on, you have been asking the same questions for a decade now. -- Ian Collins