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From: ghe@comphy.PHYSICS.ORST.EDU (Guangliang He)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: What is the FORTRAN for ?
Keywords: FORTRAN, stupidity
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Date: 25 Jul 90 23:25:29 GMT
References: <1990Jul25.174153.16896@ecn.purdue.edu>
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In article <1990Jul25.174153.16896@ecn.purdue.edu> moshkovi@cn.ecn.purdue.edu writes:
| Please, don't consider my question offending, but why the hell in this world
| you people still using FORTRAN, while so many nice C around.
| 
| Gene
| 

I'm not going to start another Fortran/C flame war here. 

I agree there are some nice C around. But on some machine, C just is not as
good as Fortran. For example, the C compiler on the IBM AIX/370 don't
support vectorization. (Correct me if I'm wrong). 
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