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- From: djulian@controls.ccd.harris.com (Danny E. Julian)
- Subject: Reasons for using C vs. Fortran or vice/versa
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.135901.15191@ccd.harris.com>
- Sender: usenet@ccd.harris.com
- Organization: Harris Controls Division
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- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 13:59:01 GMT
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- Hello,
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- This may or may not be the place to ask this, but here I go anyway.
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- I was wondering what advantages Fortran has over C(if any) and vice-versa.
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- I know C is much better than Fortran in the I/O dept., but is there anything
- else that makes it a better language.
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- The reason I ask is when was in college, we used C for our primary language.
- But the company I work for, uses a lot of Fortran(mainly because it was
- written years ago and still works). We do a lot of number crunching around
- here and I've always been told that Fortran was very good at that.
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- Is Fortran actually better than C for number crunching routines?
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- Sorry if this is wasting BW.
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- Thanks a bunch.
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- Danny
-