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- From: jim@accelr8.com (Jim Reiss)
- Subject: Fortran to C issues?
- Organization: Accelr8 Technology Corporation
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:28:33 GMT
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- In some computation-intensive environments there seems to be a general
- feeling that FORTRAN is much better than C for some tasks. I shudder to
- be asking this because rekindling the C/FORTRAN flame war is not what
- I want to do...but...is there a good basis for that opinion, and does that
- mean that FORTRAN to C translators like f2c and the NAG FORTRAN compiler
- are inherently inferior to a FORTRAN to machine language compiler? If so,
- please explain why. Please try to keep answers from degenerating into
- "so there" and religious style comments. Thank you.
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- Jim Reiss (jim@accelr8.com) Accelr8 Technology, Denver, Colorado, USA
- Opinions expressed above are mine. Who else would have them?
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