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From: harrison@necssd.NEC.COM (Mark Harrison)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: a secular response to the religious conflict
Message-ID: <581@necssd.NEC.COM>
Date: 11 Dec 90 14:57:31 GMT
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In article <14699@smoke.brl.mil>, gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:

> C is so much more suited to general applications than Fortran that
> limiting one's attention to science/engineering applications would
> produce a quite imperfect understanding of how to exploit the language.

One solution to this problem is to use both languages.  I helped some
EE's move some engineering applications to the PC, using Microsoft
Fortran.  One of the enhancements they made was to use Microsoft C for the
screen interface (Using the excellent shareware "Window Boss") and
file operations, and using Fortran for the number crunching.
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