So-Called Real Programmers and FORTRAN
From: Carlos Murillo <carlos_murillo_at_epm.net.co>
>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.
When I dont want to see the underlying machine Pascal is very nice
and has proven very portable. When I need to get at the underlying
machine and don't wish to use assembler then C wins usually at the
expense of some portability.
>(portable) code, and Matlab and FORTRAN rule in that realm. Yes, FORTRAN.
:-)
Fortran is old but well proven.
Allison
Received on Tue May 07 2002 - 07:58:27 BST
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