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From: ELEYC@latvax8.lat.oz
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: What is the FORTRAN for ?
Message-ID: <4601@latvax8.lat.oz>
Date: 17 Aug 90 09:40:11 GMT
References: <1990Jul25.174153.16896@ecn.purdue.edu>
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In article <1990Jul25.174153.16896@ecn.purdue.edu>, moshkovi@sanandreas.ecn.purdue.edu (Gennady Moshkovich) 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 am not going to say if FORTRAN is better or worse than C. However, no matter
how much effect is put into the development of a language, it is not going to
be perfect. There are always some advantages and shortcomes with it.

The reason why I stick on FORTRAN is that I got familiar with FORTRAN before C
came along. I just can't borther to learn another language and change all the
programs I have written in FORTRAN, to save, perhaps, 0.5mins of CPU time which
is not significant to me at all.

y.c.--
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