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Article #1276Re: C vs. FORTRAN (was C official DOD langauge?)
From: Nick Rothwell
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 1990 09:12
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 1990 09:12
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In article <915@gistdev.gist.com>, flint@gistdev (Flint Pellett) writes: >In case you haven't guessed by now: in 95 applications out of 100 >I'd recommend using C over Fortran. About the only time I ever >went with Fortran was for doing solutions of complex differential >equations and related numerical analysis work, because the packages >to do it were available. I believe I once saw mention of a third computer programming language. One which wasn't C, and wasn't FORTRAN either. Might have been my imagination. [ 1/2 :-) ] >Flint Pellett Nick. -- Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh. nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk <Atlantic Ocean>!mcsun!ukc!lfcs!nick ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ Ich weiss jetzt was kein Engel weiss
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!lfcs!nick From: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: C vs. FORTRAN (was C official DOD langauge?) Message-ID: <4574@castle.ed.ac.uk> Date: 8 Jun 90 09:12:29 GMT References: <1633@dinl.mmc.UUCP> <915@gistdev.gist.com> Reply-To: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Organization: Jenny Agutter Appreciation Society of Edinburgh Lines: 23 In-reply-to: flint@gistdev.gist.com (Flint Pellett)