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Article #2496Re: Fortran vs. C for numerical work
From: Dan Salomon
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 1990 00:40
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 1990 00:40
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In article <16671@csli.Stanford.EDU> poser@csli.stanford.edu (Bill Poser) writes:
>Would someone care to enlighten me as to why he or she thinks that C has
>a difficult syntax and is difficult to learn?
It is not that C's syntax is hard to learn, it is that C is tricky to use.
To convince yourself of this, read Andrew Koenig's book "C Traps and
Pifalls", and try to come up with and equal number of equally serious
traps and pitfalls for FORTRAN. Your FORTRAN list will certaily not
be empty, but it will not be as long or serious as the one for C.
You can alse read the FAQ list in this news group, and compare it to
the one posted in comp.lang.fortran. If there is no such posting in
comp.lang.fortran (as I suspect) then try to come up with a similar set
of questions yourself.
--
Dan Salomon -- salomon@ccu.UManitoba.CA
Dept. of Computer Science / University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 2N2 / (204) 275-6682
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!clyde.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!salomon From: salomon@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Dan Salomon) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Fortran vs. C for numerical work Message-ID: <1990Dec11.004032.14796@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Date: 11 Dec 90 00:40:32 GMT References: <2392:Nov2902:59:0590@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <7339@lanl.gov> <1990Nov30.145649.17688@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1990Nov30.163613.9562@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> <1980@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA> <18016@hydra.gatech.EDU> <16671@csli.Stanford.EDU> Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada Lines: 19