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From: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Should I convert FORTRAN code to C?
Message-ID: <712@garth.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jun 88 19:02:21 GMT
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Reply-To: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
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Another big problem is that Fortran programs run like a bat out of hell with a
good compiler. It is hard to convince people to give up the performance for
(?)ephermal advantages of maintainablity.