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- From: klassen@sol.UVic.CA (Melvin Klassen)
- Subject: C versus FORTRAN debate (WAS: Re: Welcome to HPFF
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.224112.19348@sol.UVic.CA>
- Keywords: HPFF, High Performance Fortran
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- Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C. CANADA
- References: <Bsy43C.9BG@rice.edu> <1992Aug14.092952.11572@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 22:41:12 GMT
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- In article <0@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>
- i2041101@rzphy1.rz.tu-bs.de (Joachim Paulini, TU Braunschweig) writes:
- >
- >Stop it! I'm programming now for several years scientific applications
- >in FORTRAN 77 because I must do it, due to libraries and already existing
- >programs in FORTRAN.
- > ...
- >The situation now is that people who are used to a 'real' programming language
- >(mostly C) only write programs in FORTRAN if there is no other way ... like me.
- >If in some years most of the numeric software is available in C, all new
- >numeric programmers won't code in FORTRAN and many of the old will convert too.
-
- I wish my employer would pay me to "wait some years"!
- He wants the results **NOW**, even if I have to use arrays in Fortran 90!
- You really should **not** walk away from your terminal without logging off!
- It lets hackers restart the old "C versus FORTRAN" religious debates!
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