So-Called Real Programmers and FORTRAN

From: Carlos Murillo <carlos_murillo_at_epm.net.co>
Date: Mon May 6 23:21:38 2002

At 10:51 AM 5/6/02 -0500, you wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Allison [mailto:ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net]
>> I disagree. The UCSD version was an excellent teaching tool but
>> slower than sludge due to the P-code thing. Later implementations
>> namely JRT and Borland were very useful tools.
>I'm also of that opinion. I like Pascal, and Modula, and Oberon...
>Chris

I went from HP3000 BASIC to UCSD Pascal. I liked it. In retrospect,
the things that suck about Pascal are the argument passing mechanism
and strings. C is better essentially because it lets you manage
memory directly, without predefined string sizes. And it lets you
handle the guts.

But I am not a C programmer in general (except when programming
microcontrollers in RT applications); I write mostly scientific numerical
(portable) code, and Matlab and FORTRAN rule in that realm. Yes, FORTRAN. :-)
My stuff runs under Solaris, AIX, Linux, HPUX, and Win32, using gcc/g77,
HP f77, Sun fortran, xlf.

carlos.


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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo_at_nospammers.ieee.org
Received on Mon May 06 2002 - 23:21:38 BST