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Article #2300Re: Fortran vs. C for numerical work
From: Dan Bernstein
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 1990 18:34
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 1990 18:34
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In article <1990Dec6.144950.13182@ccs.carleton.ca> greg@sce.carleton.ca (Greg Franks) writes: > In article <26349:Dec404:38:5790@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes: > :-( Flame on the fortran flame wars :-( > first he tries to tell fortran programmers to convert to C (r > "read the output of f2c for 5 minutes a day" then says... No, I didn't. I pointed out that a Fortran programmer who wanted to learn C the easy way could take advantage of f2c. Notice the adjective phrase beginning ``who.'' First Jim ignores ``packed'' in ``packed array trie.'' Then someone else ignores ``like C'' in ``Fortran does not have separate compilation like C.'' Then a dozen people ignore ``per byte'' and ``for sorting numbers'' in the sorting discussion. Now Greg can't read ``who wants to learn C'' after ``Fortran programmer.'' I know Mark Twain didn't think much of adjectives, but this is getting a little ridiculous. ---Dan
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!haven!adm!cmcl2!kramden.acf.nyu.edu!brnstnd From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,alt.flame Subject: Re: Fortran vs. C for numerical work Message-ID: <6015:Dec618:34:3490@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> Date: 6 Dec 90 18:34:34 GMT References: <763@ubbpc.UUCP> <26349:Dec404:38:5790@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <1990Dec6.144950.13182@ccs.carleton.ca> Organization: IR Lines: 18