Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ooms
From: ooms@delgeo.UUCP (Frank Ooms)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: What is the FORTRAN for ?
Keywords: FORTRAN, stupidity
Message-ID: <1759@delgeo.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jul 90 13:08:41 GMT
References: <1990Jul25.174153.16896@ecn.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: ooms@delgeo.UUCP (Frank Ooms)
Organization: Delft Geophysical b.v.
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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
>

Why? because it would be stupid to write in a language that does not give the
fastest code on the machine your using. (vectorization, paralellization, etc)

that's why.

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