<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 1:55 AM, Joe Zeff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joe@zeff.us">joe@zeff.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
If you can't do what's needed in FORTRAN, you can't do it. Back in the<br>
early '80s, I was working with Dan Alderson at JPL. We were doing work<br>
with structures and pointer arithmetic, in FORTRAN77 because it was a<br>
subroutine and function package to be used in other FORTRAN programs so<br>
we couldn't use Dan's favorite language, PL/1. Those of you who think<br>
you can't do things like that in FORTRAN would do well to ponder the<br>
fact that Jerry Pournelle has called Dan "the sane genius."<br>
</blockquote></div><br><br>:)<br><br><br>-- <br><br>Regards,<br>Parshwa Murdia<br>