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- From: ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
- Subject: Re: Switching from Fortran to C
- Date: 13 Sep 1992 11:07:31 -0700
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- wmc@torpedo.uucp (Bill Cornette) writes:
-
- >Although the idea of learning a new language from scratch is nice, it is
- >usually started by relating to analogies in the language with which you
- >are most familiar (language of birth :) ).
-
- In the project of mastering C, it is better to know about loops and
- if-else-endif as compared to knowing nothing. But the conceptual gap
- between fortran and C is hard to exaggerate. It will take a real
- change in the way of thinking to wield C effectively after having done
- fortran. (I think it's certainly harder to switch from fortran to C
- than from Pascal to C, so the typical UG who's learned Pascal early on
- is better off unspoilt by fortran).
-
- And thats all for the better! As /usr/games/fortune points out, a
- programming language which does not change the way you think about
- programming is not worth learning :-)
-
- -ans.
- --
- Ajay Shah, (213)749-8133, ajayshah@usc.edu
-