comp.lang.idl-pvwave archive: archive » Re: What does an optimal scientific programming language/environment need?

Home » Public Forums » archive » Re: What does an optimal scientific programming language/environment need?

Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator
E-mail to friend

Re: What does an optimal scientific programming language/environment need? [message #36504 is a reply to message #36502]

Mon, 22 September 2003 08:07

Duane Bozarth
Messages: 4
Registered: September 2003

Junior Member

phil chastney wrote:
>
> "grunes" <grunes@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:2c0d6c85.0309191029.3efe3a99@posting.google.com...
>>
>> 5. 100% upwards compatibility with earlier versions of the same
>> language/environment, and between platforms.
>
> I don't see this as either necessary or desirable -- Fortran has survived so
> well precisely because of its ability to move the language definition sideways,
> without being shackled to earlier imperfections

Well, since F77 there is little that has actually been removed and a
major consideration (as is evidenced in converstions in c.l.f) is
maintaining compatability w/existing code. In practice, virtually
nothing is ever removed from a commercial compiler although most have
switches to allow specific standard level violations to be flagged...

Report message to a moderator

[Message index]

		Re: What does an optimal scientific programming language/environment need? By: Richard Maine on Mon, 22 September 2003 11:44
		Re: What does an optimal scientific programming language/environment need? By: Duane Bozarth on Mon, 22 September 2003 08:07

Previous Topic:	Re: Dataminer: faster way to get all records in a IDLdbRecordset table?
Next Topic:	Re: The Inquirer likes Fortran

-=] Back to Top [=-

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [

] [

]

Current Time: Sun Oct 12 02:26:52 PDT 2025

Total time taken to generate the page: 0.32025 seconds