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Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 22:48:36 -0400
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From: The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@cybercom.net>
Subject: Re: lib/libF77 and lib/libI77
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At 09:07 PM 9/14/97 -0500, Jim Bryant wrote:
>as far as us "legions" [sic] of fortran programmers, we haven't had
>any problems because it does build properly via make in either the
>/usr/src/lib or /usr/src/lib/libf2c dirs...  we "legions" also
>recognize the lack of STANDARDIZED math facilities in C/C++ for
>dealing with complex numbers, etc... and would like to see fortran of
>course retained.

The ANSI/ISO standard for C++ specifies a complex number class.  And those
vector class templates can be tacked together to make a matrix, and...

Oh, never mind.  Stick with FORTRAN.

K.S.