[Debtags-devel] Proposed Debtags goals for Etch

[Thaddeus H. Black]

> It looks like there's nothing made of fortran.  We appear to have lots
> of libraries that are useful from fortran, but no pure fortran
> application.

There are not many applications in the archive made of Fortran, but here
is one: nec.

In general, however, you are right.  Fortran is well suited only to
numerical computation.  It does not handle I/O gracefully.  For this
reason, it tends to be used in numerical libraries only.

I happen to use Fortran 77 frequently, but I'm an unusual case.  Even I
would not try to write a full-scale application in Fortran.

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