From owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Sun Dec 22 21:58:35 2002 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) id VAA18519 for sc22wg5-domo; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 21:58:35 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk) X-Authentication-Warning: ptah.dkuug.dk: majordom set sender to owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk using -f Received: from mailout08.sul.t-online.com (mailout08.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.20]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id VAA18514 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 21:58:34 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from michael.metcalf@t-online.de) Received: from fwd07.sul.t-online.de by mailout08.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 18QDB5-0006es-06; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 21:58:27 +0100 Received: from metcalf (520066357016-0001@[217.225.5.13]) by fwd07.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 18QDAv-0SVJKKC; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 21:58:17 +0100 Message-ID: <004801c2a9fd$0b516960$e8d0fea9@metcalf> Reply-To: "Michael Metcalf" From: michael.metcalf@t-online.de (Michael Metcalf) To: Subject: Fw: FYI: German's negative vote on F2000 Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 21:59:39 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-Sender: 520066357016-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Precedence: bulk > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gary L. Scott" > Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran > Sent: 22 December 2002 19:40 > Subject: Re: FYI: German's negative vote on F2000 > > > > My goodness, certainly a lot to disagree with here. These sound like > > the comments of a casual observer with pre-conceived anti-Fortran bias. > > The only way Fortran will survive is if it expands its general purpose > > nature, not pigeon-holing itself into numerics only. Does one "no" vote > > kill it? > >