Fortran vs. C for numerical work (SUMMARY)

[chiba]

In article <1990Nov27.175023.26039 at zoo.toronto.edu> henry at zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:

   >
   >I think that ANSI C has a method by which compilers may make sin, cos
   >etc intrinsic, but I don't remember how it works...

   It's really very simple:  they are allowed to be intrinsic, essentially.
   There is no complexity or mystery.  C and Fortran are no longer different
   in this regard, except insofar as the Fortran libraries are larger.

But in ANSI C one is still stuck with ERRNO which makes computing
things out of order, and/or at the same time, far more entertaining
and challenging. 


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