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In article <1992Aug21.144444.11414@ncsu.edu> jwb@eos.ncsu.edu writes:
>Mike Coughlin writes:
>>   As a user of Fortran, I must protest the idea that Fortran is an 
>> old language. Since structured programming concepts were introduced
>> into Fortran many years ago, there are no "modern" programming ideas
>> that are need in Fortran to accomplish its purpose of scientific
>> and mathematical computation. The mathematical notation used by 
>
>Of course one can express "scientific and mathematical computations"
>in Fortran, C, TeX, PostScript, etc.  However, the tremendous interest
>in "object-oriented" programming among engineers and scientists shows
>that they have finally come to realize that the structure and
>organization of data are important---not exactly one of Fortran's
>strong points.

Not to fan a flame war, but indeed C++ is _excellent_ for working with
complex numbers, etc.  And, nobody will accuse you of using an outdated
language.

I used Fortran up until about 2 years ago.  It does do about anything that
you want, and DEC's Fortran compiler for VMS is probably the best single
compiler that I've ever met (in terms of optimization).  But, the lack
of structures, pointers, and recursion are crippling.  I know that they are
adding/have added some of these features, but they still aren't everywhere,
yet.

C is an excellent language for scientific stuff, and C++ even better.

Check out the flame-war du jour in soc.college for more information on
how Scheme "is great|sucks" compared to C which "is great|sucks".

	Darrin
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