Re: Newbie question: Why Fortran?

From: Gerry Thomas (gfthomas_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 07/20/04 

Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 22:01:50 -0400

"Gerry Thomas" <gfthomas@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:n0%Kc.12192$Vw3.763886@news20.bellglobal.com...
>
> "Tom" <8f27iw6z@canada.com> wrote in message
> news:97de285c.0407191236.766efbcc@posting.google.com...
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> >
> > I was just wondering why no one has has forwarded this discussion to
> > the
> > sci.math.num-analysis newsgroup. This would seem to be a discussion
> > that would be very topical in that newsgroup.
> >
> > Just another newbie question
>
> No, it's a valid question.
>
> It appears that the OP wanted to know why he should pick Fortran over
C++,
> and specific mention was made of MS VC++ and Intel Fortran, IIRC. The
> self-appointed censor of comp.lang.c, bud like suds to you though,
clearly
> doesn't know (like his creepy crawly counterparts on CLF it would seem)
> that F2003's major enhancement is its interop with C (the more important
IA
> features having been dropped by a language that masquerades as the one,
> true, holy, and apostolic programming language for NA work, in favor of
> vainly justifying its continuing irrelevancy), ergo the appropriateness
of
> the cross post to CLC and CLC++. As for sci.math.num-analysis, they
> generally confine themselves to NA issues which are programming language
> neutral. Anyways, here's cross posting to sci.math.num-analysis, perhaps
> it'll rope in some other ng mullah to give me a laugh.
>
> --
> --
> You're Welcome,
> Gerry T.
> ______
> "The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure
> uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities,
> that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes
> the sense that there is an outside." -- Allan Bloom, in The Closing of
the
> American Mind.
>

Oops, sci.math.num-analysis! 

-- 
You're Welcome,
Gerry T.
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authorities are wrong." --  Voltaire.

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