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- From: ejh@colorado.edu (Edward J. Hartnett)
- Subject: Re: Switching from Fortran to C
- In-Reply-To: syo@Comtech.com's message of Tue, 8 Sep 1992 22:31:38 GMT
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- Date: 9 Sep 92 09:23:50
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- In article <1992Sep8.223138.4077@Comtech.com> syo@Comtech.com (Sinan Y. Othman) writes:
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- From: syo@Comtech.com (Sinan Y. Othman)
- Sender: syo@comtech.com
- Organization: Comtech Labs Inc, Palo Alto
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 22:31:38 GMT
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- I am new to this newsgroup so pardon me if this subject has been beaten to
- death (I suspect it is ) but ....
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- I am an experienced Fortran programmer who, after considerable resistance,
- finally decided to switch to C. I would like to hear from others out there
- who are, or have gone through, a similar process.
-
- Thank you,
-
- Sinan Othman
-
-
- I am in the process of doing the same and my advice is: take a C
- course. I never needed a course in any computer language or
- application (never even read the manuals much - just waded right in),
- but C seems to have too many finicky little things that you just need
- to know. I've been doing a little C programming for about a year now,
- have read several books, etc., but recently I couldn't get a simple C
- program running in 3 days of effort, with my boss looking over my
- shoulder. Finally I gave up in disgust and rewrote the whole thing in
- FORTRAN in half an hour.
-
- This is not meant to be a flame against C. I signed up for a course
- and I'll be starting next Monday. I just decided that this was a case
- where some formal, structured instruction was needed. I'm looking
- forward to getting that damn program to work in C too! My feeling is
- that C is such a compact language, with such a rich history of it's
- own way of doing things, that it's harder to learn. FORTRAN, BASIC,
- Pascal, and even Lisp were easy, but C takes a little more effort. I'm
- convinced it will be worth it though.
-
- Ed
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- Edward Hartnett ejh@khonshu.colorado.edu
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