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From: eugene@pioneer.arpa (Eugene N. Miya)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: FORTRAN horrors
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Date: 31 Mar 88 00:00:38 GMT
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In article <502@amethyst.UUCP> chris@spock.ame.arizona.edu (Chris Ott) writes:
>     The point of my article was: Fortran should be used for certain problems
>and C should be used for other problems. Each language has its own domain. It
>bothers me when people start saying that some language is the best for
>everything.

The problem comes with domains like the following: my office mate gets
back from a conference on sparse matricies.  Fortran isn't as good as
certain other languages for the expression of the data structure.  What
do you do?  1) Mix <generic other language> and Fortran? 2) code purely
in one language and live with deficiencies? 3) code in assembly language
and hide these are a function or subroutine call in your favorite
langauge?
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