fortran to C converter

Dik T. Winter dik at cwi.nl
Wed Apr 26 05:37:26 AEST 1989


In article <10112 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
 > In article <8050 at boring.cwi.nl> dik at cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes:
 > -Given that Cray's choice predates C, this sounds a bit strange.  Considering
 > -K&R and Ansi C, I would say that K&R made a bad decision (and clearly an
 > -interim one).
 > 
 > That's completely wrong -- C predates Cray Inc.

That is right, but I said something else:  Cray's choice predates C; you know,
you will find Seymour Cray's choice in such relicts as the CDC 7600.
(Yup, all older, 60-bit, Cybers have 60-bit single precision floating point,
and nothing smaller.)
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