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From: davis@galaxy.ee.rochester.edu (Al Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Fortran versus C for numerical anal
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Date: 2 Sep 88 02:23:43 GMT
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The fact that Fortran does not support dynamic memory allocation makes it
unsuitable for nearly all numerical analysis applications.

The fact that Fortran does not have a convenient way of making a loop that
does not use a simple counter makes it really cumbersome for many numerical
applications (examples: FFT, any iterative method for solving nonlinear
equations, etc.)

The fact that C does not support conformant arrays is a trivial loss.  Most
who know what they are doing don't use static arrays anyway.