Fortran - Re: Why these original FORTRAN quirks?

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Re: Why these original FORTRAN quirks?

Jan Vorbrüggen

2006-10-30, 7:15 pm

>>Then again, the dominant style in C these days is using quite long
> and people want to be able to call those C routines without having to
> map the names to something else. I didn't define those names. I
> personally think them ludicrous. But they exist, and the Fortran
> standard increased its name length limit to accomodate them.

Of course, part of the problem is C++ and its inability to get proper support
from the linker/loader for overloading of functions and procedure, which leads
to the abominable practice of name mangling. Bah pfui!

> I'll also note that I continue to disagree with the claim that
> readability didn't suffer from the 6-character limit.

Quite so.

Jan

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