From: dot@dotat.at   
      
   SM Ryan  wrote:   
   >   
   >I lost track of Fortran before 90 was standarised, but the array   
   >notation of 8X was seriously broken: while theoretically letting   
   >programmers express themselves at a high level, it forced serial   
   >semantics whether the programmer intended that or no; thus the   
   >notation could not be vectorised or parallelised any easier than if   
   >explicit do loops had been used.   
      
   There was an interesting paper about High Performance Fortran presented   
   at the recent HOPL III conference. HPF adds parrallelization pragmas to   
   Fortran 90.   
      
   http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1238844.1238851   
      
   Tony.   
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