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- From: ctrbdo@iapa.uucp%mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu (bryan d oakley)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
- Subject: Re: Correction! Re: Fortran Forever?
- Message-ID: <BxML1A.JCE@iapa.uucp%mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 22:55:56 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: fred@poly2.nist.gov's message of 12 Nov 92 17:10:46 GMT
-
- Deja Vu! Just a few moments ago in comp.lang.c someone asked the
- merits of C vs. FORTRAN. I'm not going to go over THAT again...
-
- I'm a FORTRAN programmer at heart, but do C when the problem lends
- itself to a solution in C. I just recently got GNU c++ (g++) so I'm
- checking in to it. Object orientedness has it's place in the world,
- but from what I read c++ is a poor imitation of real object oriented
- programming (ask any lisp or smalltalk programmer). My advice (you
- get what you pay for...:-): Learn them all, then use the one best
- suited for the problem. Gotta write a math library? Use FORTRAN.
- Deal with system level stuff? C is great. Windows? C or C++. Don't
- use a hammer when the job requires a screwdriver.
-
- People who swear C should be used for all tasks reminds me of the
- quote (and I paraphrase) "to a child with a hammer, everything looks
- like a nail".
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