Fortran vs. C for numerical work (SUMMARY)

Dan Bernstein brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu
Tue Dec 4 15:42:49 AEST 1990


In article <1990Dec4.011220.9302 at ccu.umanitoba.ca> salomon at ccu.umanitoba.ca (Dan Salomon) writes:
> If you have to maintain the numerical libraries in FORTRAN, then you
> cannot really say that you are doing your numerical work in C.

One of the great advantages of the classical Fortran numerical libraries
is that they are so reliable that the code never has to be maintained. A
library is a library is a library.

---Dan



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