Fortran vs. C for numerical work

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1990Nov22.051446.1871 at ccu.umanitoba.ca> salomon at ccu.umanitoba.ca (Dan Salomon) writes:
>The reasons that C should replace FORTRAN for numerical work:

3)  C has decent support for nontrivial data structures, while they are
sufficiently painful to emulate in Fortran that few Fortran programmers
even try.

Most really interesting algorithms are associated with interesting data
structures.