[Info-vax] VSI Community License Program - x86

[Scott Dorsey]

bill  <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>On 4/10/2023 7:09 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> 
>> Some of the stuff added in the layers after fortran90 have been
>> messy, like pointers.  Engineers shouldn't be allowed to touch
>> pointers. 
>
>There are many things engineers should  not be allowed to touch.
>Another would be writing business applications in Fortran.  But
>that's probably a story for another time.  :-)

I can understand how folks like quants who want to do real math might
want to be using fortran for business applications.  Unfortunately it
doesn't have money types, but you can always use integer and do some
fancy stuff to add the decimal point.
--scott

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