Xref: utzoo comp.lang.fortran:4114 comp.lang.c:34157 Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au!spam!spam.ua.oz.au!wvenable From: wvenable@spam.ua.oz.au (Bill Venables) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Fortran vs. C for numerical work Message-ID: Date: 22 Nov 90 12:47:05 GMT References: <21884@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <1990Nov21.220816.15220@rice.edu> <17290@netcom.UUCP> Sender: wvenable@spam.ua.oz Organization: Adelaide University. Lines: 18 In-reply-to: avery@netcom.UUCP's message of 22 Nov 90 09:37:17 GMT 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." > Actually this is an inversion rather than a paraphrase. I recall it being exactly the other way round: "We don't know what the numerical programming language of the year 2000 will look like, but it will be called Fortran." which seems all too distressingly plausible! (Take that any way you like... :-) -- Bill Venables, Dept. of Statistics, | Email: venables@spam.adelaide.edu.au Univ. of Adelaide, South Australia. | Phone: +61 8 228 5412