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Subject: Re: FORTRAN/C and numerical programming - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 22-Jun-84 03:26:03 EDT
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ecn-ee!malcolm    Jun 21 19:59:00 1984

The best reason to use C instead of Fortran is the human interface.  For my
research I write large/long running number crunchers and an awful lot of the
code is used to parse the command line arguments and check their sanity.

True, C has some shortcomings (no complex!) but I'd much rather have the
nice string and structure manipulation.

Right now I am anxiously waiting for C++ to see the light of day.....

						Malcolm Slaney
						Nouveau Image Processing Lab
						Purdue EE Dept.
P.S.  Kuo Chen Li, here at Purdue, has defined and implemented a Vector C for
the Cyber 205.  It is real nice...and fast too.