Hi Alain!

Your absoutly right about FORTRAN. I maintain 8MB of Fortran 77 code (a
FEM code for static, dynamic mechanical problems and CFD) and every time
I run into a problem I have to search for day to track the error down
(in most cases not mine but those of the original authors). Especially
common blocks can be nasty and more so when single and double numbers
are stored in the same block. What can happen there .....

I still think that FORTRAN is unavoidable for high computation of
numerical problems. All the high computing languages for the CRAY or NEC
I've seen were derivates of FORTRAN.

Besides I'm learning C++. I did some ADA 83/95 too and I liked it but it
is not supported like C or C++ are. 

It's still funny not to be the only one in the world that has to fight
with the limitations of FORTRAN.

Marc
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Marc Schimmler

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