| Michael Prager 2007-11-26, 7:17 pm |
| kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu (Steven G. Kargl) wrote:
> According to the above sentence, gfortran is a conforming Fortran 95
> compiler because, well surprise, backslash is not a member of the
> Fortran character set.
I won't debate that point. The point I will debate is that Unix
is the "mother" operating system whose quirks should be the
default everywhere. There is no reason to take an arbitrary
printing character and turn it by default into an escape, other
than mimicking C and Unix.
Of course Unix and its love children have contributed
considerably to computing. I just don't think everything in
computing should be bound to Unix ways of doing things.
Mike
(who has used at least a dozen operating systems)
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