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- From: jm59@prism.gatech.EDU (MILLS,JOHN M.)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Why C over FORTRAN
- Message-ID: <82203@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 15:12:14 GMT
- References: <1993Jan19.091814.176@turtle.fisher.com> <1404@pivot-sts.sbi.com> <RVILLA.93Jan27211009@navier.ae.utexas.edu>
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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- In article <RVILLA.93Jan27211009@navier.ae.utexas.edu> rvilla@navier.ae.utexas.edu (reynaldo villarreal) writes:
- >
- >I am interested in the pros and cons of C vs. FORTRAN.(gcc vs f77 on a
- >Sun) I have to write code and have to give an informed choice to my
- >advisor on which to use.
-
- If you want more that religious answers, you should be more specific as
- to what you wish to program, and probably cross post to another language
- group or two. I would expect a couple of weeks worth of dogma and flames,
- anyhow. Press, et. al., in their Numerical Recipies series address pros
- and cons, but basically as seen by Fortran programmers. I would consider
- the code I _did_not_ have to write, i.e., libraries and toolsets, in making
- this decision.
-
- Regards --jmm--
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- John M. Mills, SRE; Georgia Tech/GTRI/TSDL, Atlanta, GA 30332
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