Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!gatech!prism!gt4512c
From: gt4512c@prism.gatech.EDU (BRADBERRY,JOHN L)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Fortran vs. C argument
Message-ID: <18139@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 5 Dec 90 13:20:01 GMT
References: <28621@usc> <1990Dec5.011038.12618@ariel.unm.edu>
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Lines: 16

In article <1990Dec5.011038.12618@ariel.unm.edu> john@ghostwheel.unm.edu (John Prentice) writes:
>In article <28621@usc> ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:
>Fortran continues to be dominant scientifically because people know it, it
>is very easy to learn, and it has most of the structures that most scientists 
>need.  That may not satisfy the computer community, but that is the reality.

This really says it all! If you're an ICS person, you're 'into' languages
for their own sake (primarily). Honever, to those who need a TOOL to do a
job, a good tool must be effective BUT it must be as easy to learn as
possible! Some of the best software in the world dies on a vine because of
clumsy operator interfaces...
-- 
John L. Bradberry        |Georgia Tech Research Inst|uucp:..!prism!gt4512c
Scientific Concepts Inc. |Microwaves and Antenna Lab|Int : gt4512c@prism
2359 Windy Hill Rd. 201-J|404 528-5325 (GTRI)       |GTRI:jbrad@msd.gatech.
Marietta, Ga. 30067      |404 438-4181 (SCI)        |'...is this thing on..?'   


Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com