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From: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: C vs. FORTRAN (was C official DOD langauge?)
Message-ID: <4574@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 8 Jun 90 09:12:29 GMT
References: <1633@dinl.mmc.UUCP> <915@gistdev.gist.com>
Reply-To: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
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In-reply-to: flint@gistdev.gist.com (Flint Pellett)

In article <915@gistdev.gist.com>, flint@gistdev (Flint Pellett) writes:
>In case you haven't guessed by now: in 95 applications out of 100
>I'd recommend using C over Fortran.  About the only time I ever
>went with Fortran was for doing solutions of complex differential
>equations and related numerical analysis work, because the packages
>to do it were available.

I believe I once saw mention of a third computer programming language.

One which wasn't C, and wasn't FORTRAN either.

Might have been my imagination.

[ 1/2 :-) ]

>Flint Pellett

		Nick.
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