Fortran vs. C for numerical work (SUMMARY)

[Dan Salomon]

In article <1990Dec1.232408.13365 at zoo.toronto.edu> henry at zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>             ...  In one sense, f2c really ought to be cc2fc -- its primary
>mission is to be a pre-pass to turn a C compiler into a Fortran compiler.
>Code maintenance is still better done on the Fortran.

If you have to maintain the numerical libraries in FORTRAN, then you
cannot really say that you are doing your numerical work in C.
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Dan Salomon -- salomon at ccu.UManitoba.CA
               Dept. of Computer Science / University of Manitoba
	       Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada  R3T 2N2 / (204) 275-6682