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From: cjl@ecsvax.UUCP (Charles Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Fortran -vs- C for Numerical Computing (not really)
Message-ID: <4969@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: 22 Apr 88 02:03:04 GMT
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Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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Keywords: Fortran,C,Numerical Analysis,Mainframe, Personal Computers
Summary: Depends on machines...




As to which is BETTER, it depends on the potential targets that
the "portable" program will be ported.  Many may do better with
C (some UNIX installations may not have a decent F77 compiler).

I agree with Eugene- - look to the canned stuff first.  There ARE
some C canned scientific routines out.  Don't ignore the PD, as there
are some decent libraries on some BBS systems...

Charles Lord
Cary, NC  
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