Subj : Re: Industry Calls for More Foreign Programmers To : comp.programming From : blmblm Date : Fri Aug 19 2005 03:25 pm In article <1124443672.965711.76370@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>, wrote: [ snip ] > >The brutal truth: if, for example, a programmer has specialized in >financial Fortran for several years, he will not have adopted the >structured, storage management, and (god forbid) object-oriented (if >any) improvements to Fortran but will stick to canonical Fortran, >including overuse of overexposed common data and Equivalence for shits >and giggles. What do you mean by "canonical Fortran", and what objections if any do you have to making use of features included in Fortran standards later than FORTRAN 77? (Really, I suppose I'm asking whether you're aware that Fortran has evolved significantly from the days when there was no way to define data structures other than arrays, or allocate memory dynamically, without using non-standard extensions. Maybe you are.) [ snip ] -- | B. L. Massingill | ObDisclaimer: I don't speak for my employers; they return the favor. .