Re: Maple's "fd" crash code, and FORTRAN in Maple

Craig Carey wrote:
> A MuPad person (Mr Christopher Creutzig), said earlier at sci.math.symbolic,
> that some of Maple was in FORTRAN.
>
> Use of FORTRAN can lead to bugs. Maybe FORTRAN programmers produce worse code
> and get a high salary. Also maybe they are indifferent to overall quality and
> correctness issues.

This is language bigotry. C, the most likely alternative to Fortran,
has its own set of strengths and flaws (especially involving pointers).
I have read that Fortran compilers usually have better array bounds
checking than C compilers. Trying to access out of bound array elements
is a common source of errors.

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