jwe@ut-emx.UUCP (John W. Eaton) (08/02/90)
In article <1782@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au> ghm@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au (Geoff Miller) writes: > ajayshah@aludra.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes: >> ... and wrote something like 10k lines of fortran within those >> three months. You can say I know fortran intimately. > You might. I wouldn't. I've spent much of the past fourteen years writing > and debugging FORTRAN and I wouldn't make that claim. Neither would I. I used to think I knew Fortran fairly well, but I have since seen enough tricky examples to make me realize that I really don't know as much as I thought. It seems to me that this is a much safer attitude to have, BTW. (Oh no, now we're really headed for the holy wars :-) > I'm still not sure what you mean by "fortran-style-programmer". If you have > looked at any of the recent guides to FORTRAN style (such as the one > David Levine put together late last year) you will see [...] What is this, and where can I find a copy? -- John Eaton jwe@emx.utexas.edu Department of Chemical Engineering The University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas 78712