Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!cmcl2!lanl!jlg
From: jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Fortran versus C for numerical anal
Message-ID: <3255@lanl.gov>
Date: 6 Sep 88 23:59:06 GMT
References: <1440@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu>
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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From article <1440@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu>, by davis@galaxy.ee.rochester.edu (Al Davis):
> 
> 
> The fact that Fortran does not support dynamic memory allocation makes it
> unsuitable for nearly all numerical analysis applications.

I've never had any trouble.  But then, I've never been saddled with a 
Fortran that couldn't do dynamic memory allocation either.  In any case,
aside from dynamic memory, there are _many_ things that Fortran does
_right_ and C doesn't.

J. Giles
Los Alamos