Xref: utzoo comp.lang.fortran:828 comp.lang.c:10972 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!mordor!joyce!sri-unix!garth!smryan From: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Should I convert FORTRAN code to C? Message-ID: <829@garth.UUCP> Date: 28 Jun 88 20:09:48 GMT References: <2742@utastro.UUCP> <20008@beta.UUCP> <224@raunvis.UUCP> <1189@mcgill-vision.UUCP> <20454@beta.lanl.gov> Reply-To: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan) Organization: INTERGRAPH (APD) -- Palo Alto, CA Lines: 8 >> > type. Complex is more than just a pair of reals, [...] >> >> It's both more and less powerful. To put it another way, FORTRAN's >> COMPLEX data type is NOT an adequate replacement for the ability to >> define custom data types. C does not provide custom data types either. It permits new structures, but those are not orthogonal to the primitive types: no new operators, no new casts, (on some implementation) no new assignments, ...