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Article #2301Re: Fortran vs. C for numerical work
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 1990 15:30
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 1990 15:30
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In article <1990Dec5.185852.5191@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel) writes: > It's not just infix. Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you have to > declare every last variable in C? Given some relatively simple conventions > and judicious use of implicit, you almost never have to declare a simple > variable in Fortran. This is an advantage? The rest of your points are quite valid, and I get pretty defensive about the poor array support in C, but right now we're really just in a holding pattern waiting for the object oriented programming wars to get over and done with... and praying C++ doesn't win. Imagine if UNIX was written in Ratfor. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Fortran vs. C for numerical work Message-ID: <EI+7GC7@xds13.ferranti.com> Date: 6 Dec 90 15:30:33 GMT References: <16671@csli.Stanford.EDU> <1990Dec5.022302.25764@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> <16725@csli.Stanford.EDU> <1990Dec5.185852.5191@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 14