Re: C versus FORTRAN90

Jan Vorbrüggen wrote:


You would be surprised what high-energy physicists did with Fortran.
Device drivers is one of the easier things.

Jan

:-0

My personal formulae is:
C for system tasks,
Fortran for numerics,
Lisp for the rest.

Regards

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"I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software design:
One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies
and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious
deficiencies."
-- C. A. R. Hoare
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