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- From: fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus James HENDERSON)
- Subject: Re: Scientists as Programmers (was Re: Small Language Wanted)
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- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
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- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 12:44:02 GMT
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- meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) writes:
-
- >In article <92245.124125KGZXK@ASUACAD.BITNET> Zafer KADI
- ><KGZXK@ASUACAD.BITNET> writes:
- >
- >| I have been on both sides of issue (I have MS's in both Mech.Eng CS)
- >|
- >| There is no one wrong or right on the issue of :
- >|
- >| 1. FORTRAN or anyother language.
- >| All you Computer Science major that think Fortran is so bad can
- >| you tell me anyother language that has all the forms of numbers
- >| that the scinetist use such as integers, real numbers and COMPLEX
- >| numbers.
- >
- >C++.
-
- Exactly. What's more, with C++ I can have arbitrary precision integers,
- arbitrary precision rational numbers, fixed point real numbers, etc.
- (all of these are available using GNU's libg++). If you want
- quaternions, then it's no big deal to add them too.
-
- Of course there is no single language that will please everybody, but IMHO
- teaching new CS students Fortran is not making the best use of the
- limited course time available.
-
- --
- Fergus Henderson fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU
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