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>=20
> So I agree, had the same initial reaction.  But I read the paper a=20
> second time and the point about Fortran, all these years later, still
> being a thing resonated.  The hardware guys stand on their heads to
> give us coherent caches. =20

Fortran is a higher level language.    It gives he compiler more =
flexibility in deciding what the programmer intended and how to =
automatically optimize for the platform.
C is often a =E2=80=9CYou asked for it, you got it=E2=80=9D type =
paradigm/