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From: "Stanislaw Kozlowski" <skozlow...@dsi.pekaosa.pl>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Rebuttal to Treurich et al.
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 13:10:05 -0000
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    In my opinion the whole thing (and the article) is not worth any
discussion.
Imagine a person who attempts to convince us to screw bolts
with a hammer. This is similar to make numerical computations
with C/C++ . Fortran is not ideal, much better for this type of
tasks would be Pascal but .... we do not
have these old, tested, ready to use libraries as in Fortran. So
taking everything into account, for numerics, majority of the programmers
use Fortran. On the other side for manipulating operating system internals
they use C/C++ and not Fortran because for this particular task
it would be too cumbersome.
                                                            S. Kozlowski
                                                            Poland
"Dan Nagle" <dna...@erols.com> wrote in message
news:1mmsitsagfbndel86u3ablupthf97jrj46@4ax.com...
> Hello,
>
> Treurich, et al. wrote an article claiming an easy
> conversion of their Fortran code to C++.
>
> Toon Moene and I have written a rebuttal which is now
> posted on my website, http://users.erols.com/dnagle
> click on "Rebuttal to Treurich et al."
>
> --
> Cheers!
>
> Dan Nagle
> Purple Sage Computing Solutions, Inc.
>
> --
> Cheers!
>
> Dan Nagle
> Purple Sage Computing Solutions, Inc.