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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
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Subject: Re: What language do you use for scientific programming?
Message-ID: <367@ttrdc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 00:42:02 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 15 00:42:02 1985
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In article <163@ho95e.UUCP>, wcs@ho95e.UUCP (x0705) writes:
> ...
>I find the biggest
>weaknesses fortran has for scientific programming are:
>	- no recursion - makes everything tough, especially multiple integration

I was under the impression that Fortran-77 allows recursion in the sense that
a routine may call itself either directly or through a chain of other routines-
am I mistaken?

>	- no dynamically dimensioned arrays ( though C is kind of clumsy also)

True in the general case--some operating systems (like VMS) provide extensions
which allow dynamic memory allocation (is this what is being referred to?).

>	- clumsy input, though this is less important for scientific prog.

Amen, brother.  Can't take input as a stream of bytes, for instance.

> ...
>--
>## Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs
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