Should I convert FORTRAN code to C?

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <829 at garth.UUCP> smryan at garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan) writes:
>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, ...

Wrong on all those counts.  C allows casting to any defined type and
assignment of any structure type.  (If you feel like using an array,
wrap a structure around it -- it's free.)  New operators can be
defined as macros or functions.  The one thing missing is overloading
of existing built-in operator tokens such as "*"; C++ supports that
but C does not.  However, operator overloading is vastly overrated;
most operations on extended data types do not map (unambiguously) onto
the conventional arithmetic operations.  Complex numbers are about the
only case that does.