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From: volovich@dendrite.Stanford.EDU (Buckaroo Banzai)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: What is the FORTRAN for ?
Keywords: FORTRAN, stupidity
Message-ID: <1990Jul26.195210.17918@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 26 Jul 90 19:52:10 GMT
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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

In the real world, FORTRAN is still your best or sometimes only answer -
for instance - scientific computing is done primarily in FORTRAN.  If you 
need any package to do anything, or if you want to use vector architecture,
your only solution would be to use FORTRAN.  Besides, what's wrong with 
it for numerically intensive purposes?  IMHO, it's more suitable for this
environment than C.  Just my .02 worth, buddy.     
 
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