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From: sun@me.utoronto.ca (Andy Sun Anu-guest)
Subject: Re: What is the FORTRAN for ?
Message-ID: <90Jul25.220640edt.20170@me.utoronto.ca>
Keywords: FORTRAN, stupidity
Organization: University of Toronto, Department of Mechanical Engineering
References: <1990Jul25.174153.16896@ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 26 Jul 90 02:06:55 GMT

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
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When I feel like typing lots of trailing semi-colons, I use C.
When I feel like typing lots of tabs (or 6 spaces), I use Fortran.

Seriously, I myself use Fortran when most of the program is computation
oriented, i.e. lots of equations, etc. When the program requires lots of
string manipulations, or if I need to combine some low-level codes, then 
I'll use C. It also depends on how comfortable you are with the language. 
Pointers and dynamic allocations are handy, but they are also screw up 
your program (or even the machine, like a PC) real good if you are not 
careful. 

Andy

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