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Date: 9 Aug 93 05:18:19 GMT
From: slinky.cs.nyu.edu!slinky.cs.nyu.edu!nobody@nyu.edu  (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: storing arrays for Fortran (was: QUERY ABOUT MONITOR)
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Mike misplaces the blame here. The issue is not "a strong standard", but
rather the question of whether the language should have checks or not, which
is a language related issue that has pretty much nothing to do with
standarization. The trouble is that once you say you want checks, you tend
to introduce notions of canonical order which clearly do not exist in
languages like Fortran and C that do not have the notion of checks built
into the language. It'
s basically a question of safety vs efficiency, nothing to to with
standardization.