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From: dsill@NSWC-OAS.arpa (Dave Sill)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Power operator?
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Date: 20 Jan 88 15:57:59 GMT
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In article <658@l.cc.purdue.edu> Herman Rubin <cik@l.cc.purdue.EDU> writes:
>...  The only advantages of FORTRAN are the power operator and
>multi-dimensional arrays. ...

Huh?                   

>In case you think that C++ should be used for some of these things, the answer
>is frequently _no_!  If C++ were produced anew, it _might_ do a fair job.
>However, since it is a C preprocessor, whenever C produces bad code, it is
>likely to do worse.

Strickly speaking, C++ is a compiler, not a preprocessor.  However,
your point that the quality of C++ code depends on the quality of
the C compiler still stands.  That's not a fault of C++, though.
It's a truism that the performance of an application depends on the
software that compiled it.

By the way, GNU's version of C++, G++, doesn't generate C code.  It
generates object code directly.  That doesn't mean it's any better
than C++, because it really just has a built-in C compiler.

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