Why I use C instead of fortran

[Barnacle Wes]

In article <7217 at brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn at brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> There are many other types of number (and other mathematical objects)
> that neither language supports.  At least with C I can implement my
> own support for them.

And with C++, you can even make them look like a *real* (no pun
intended) data type, and define the standard operators for them (you
know, + - * / < > ==).

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