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From: peters@cubsvax.UUCP (Peter S. Shenkin)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: C vs. FORTRAN (was: What should be
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Date: Wed, 11-Jun-86 12:41:41 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 11 12:41:41 1986
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Reply-To: peters@cubsvax.UUCP (Peter S. Shenkin)
Organization: Columbia Univ. Bio. CG Fac., NY
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In article <uiucdcsb.139200030> liberte@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU writes:
>
>This discussion reminds me of when I had to write a program (in FORTRAN)
>to manipulate an array with a dynamically specified number of DIMENSIONS,
>as well as dynamically specified size of each dimension.  Only APL would
>have helped (that I know of).

My initial thought was: of course you can do this in C, using a linear
array and explicit pointer arithmetic, rather than array notation;  on
the other hand you can do this just as easily in FORTRAN, using a linear
array and the identical arithmetic (modulo array origin!) on the *index*
into the array....

Peter S. Shenkin	 Columbia Univ. Biology Dept., NY, NY  10027
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