Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: is there demand for itla?

[Bruce Stephens]

Andrew Suffield <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

> Here's a healthy dose of reality: we live in a world that has failed
> to produce an adequete replacement for Fortran-77, a language
> without structured loop statements. I don't think any language has
> much to be proud of.

Fortran-77 has DO loops.  No WHILE or similar things, but in its
domain those aren't so important.  More important is Fortran-77's lack
of user defined data types, I'd have thought.  And what's wrong with
Fortran-9x/95/2001 as replacements?