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Article #2505Re: Fortran vs. C for numerical work - expression notation
From: Erland Sommarskog
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 1990 23:00
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 1990 23:00
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Also sprach Dan Bernstein (brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu): >I sure hope not. The computer treats complex types quite differently >from integer types, and I want to be reminded of that difference when >I'm programming. Until a computer can *do* mathematics I don't want to >pretend that it can *talk* mathematics. The computer treats integers and reals different too, don't you want to be reminded by that each time you write a program? And the day you discover you have to go from reals to complex, do you just love having to write the code, just because the language - either by built-ins or overloading - does not allow you use infix notation for complex numbers? Or maybe, software maintenance is something you never have to bother about? -- Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!olivea!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!enea!sommar From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Fortran vs. C for numerical work - expression notation Message-ID: <2309@enea.se> Date: 10 Dec 90 23:00:28 GMT References: <16798@csli.Stanford.EDU> <8339@lanl.gov> <914:Dec923:50:2990@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> Organization: Enea Data AB, Sweden Lines: 16