| J. F. Cornwall 2006-04-27, 7:55 am |
| Diomidis Spinellis wrote:
> J.F. Cornwall wrote:
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> I originally planned to include a chapter with separate sections for
> languages like Fortran, C#, Pascal, Ruby, Cobol, Perl, and Python.
> However, I ditched this approach in favor of discussing the principles
> in a way that applies to most languages, using C as the lowest common
> denominator, and Java and C++ for discussing object-oriented concepts. I
> mention Fortran specifically only in "Code Reading" when I discuss the
> lazy evaluation of Boolean expressions (in contrast to C and Java,
> Fortran compilers are allowed to short-circuit or to evaluate all terms).
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> I agree that there is a lot of important Fortran code around, and that
> old-style Fortran programs require their own techniques for
> comprehending them, but I'm afraid I'm not qualified to write about that
> topic.
>
> Diomidis
Ah well, never hurts to ask. :-) Looks interesting, though. Thanks.
Jim
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