On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Butler, Gerald wrote: > The important point is that the starting language must have semantics which > treat variables, object, etc. as abstract entities to be manipulated not > *memory locations* to be accessed arbitrarily. Then, the parse stage must spit
This requirement probably means that Fortran is a non-starter, as a number of its features (equivalence, common blocks) do rely on a specific layout of variables in memory. Simon
