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From: jav8106@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Doctor FORTRAN)
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Subject: Re: a secular response to the religious conflict
Summary: No, C can't make your life simpler. . .
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In article <27304.27610742@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, arritt@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes...

% If C has the potential to make my life easier, I'd like to know.

I am afraid that C has the potential of making your life much more difficult.
Forget about it. You already have a superior tool for the type of work you do.
You'll have enough to keep yourself busy with when it comes time to start using
FORTRAN 90.

As far as the people who try to convince you that C is superior, well, chances
are that you've read it here over and over: C has some advantages over FORTRAN
for some problems, but these problems are limited to computer science-type
applications. From what you have said, your programming tasks (like the tasks
of many of us here at comp.lang.fortran) could only be made more complicated
using C. Take it from somebody who programs in both C and FORTRAN: Numerical
problems can be coded faster and more reliably in FORTRAN than in C, and the
code is also more readable and easier to maintain.

If you are looking for the support of a fellow programmer, if you need that
support to keep those egotistical, boorish, know-nothing bit jockeys from
getting your goat, well, you've got it!

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