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From: avery@netcom.UUCP (Avery Colter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Fortran vs. C for numerical work
Keywords: dependence analysis, C, Fortran
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Date: 22 Nov 90 09:37:17 GMT
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paco@rice.edu (Paul Havlak) writes:

>To paraphrase Jack Schwartz:
>"We don't know what the numerical programming language of the year 2000 will
>be called, but it will look like Fortran."  (Well, at least the loops will.)

Well sure, from what I can tell, the primary structures of C, Pascal,
and Fortran look pretty similar. After learning Fortran, C is coming
along pretty naturally. The pointers and structures and unions are
interesting new things, kinda like "Fortran with some bells and whistles".

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