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Re: Ohmygod, another round of column/row-major... [message #14440 is a reply to message #14437]

Thu, 04 March 1999 00:00

Axel vom Endt
Messages: 9
Registered: March 1999

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Steve Scheele wrote:

> Fortran is column-major, and IDL was originally written in Fortran. I assume
> that this is the reason that IDL is column-major. However, since Fortran has
> no array arithmetic, it seems somewhat irrelevant at this point.

Now that's a statement I cannot resist to comment on. Fortran *does*
have array arithmetic, along with a number of nice features C is
lacking. It does have it for nine years now, time to make the news
heard.

You are not talking about this old thing from 1977 called FORTRAN (all
caps), are you? :-)

Axel

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		Re: Ohmygod, another round of column/row-major... By: mgs on Thu, 04 March 1999 00:00
		Re: Ohmygod, another round of column/row-major... By: Dr. G. Scott Lett on Thu, 04 March 1999 00:00
		Re: Ohmygod, another round of column/row-major... By: Axel vom Endt on Thu, 04 March 1999 00:00
		Re: Ohmygod, another round of column/row-major... By: Steve Scheele on Wed, 03 March 1999 00:00
		Re: Ohmygod, another round of column/row-major... By: davidf on Wed, 03 March 1999 00:00

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