A bad reason to pick Fortran or C is having been taught it at school
and then making no effort to update one's skills at any point in the
intervening decades.
On Tue, 14 Jan 2025, Van Snyder via cctalk wrote:
This assumes that your professors are teaching Fortran 66 instead of
Fortran 2025. I'd be interested to know what you believe its defects to
be.
I first taught Fortran in community college in Fall 1983.
In the lab, we used the IBM/Micorosft Fortran, which worked very well for
THAT task, but had some serious deficiencies. A "Sieve of Erastothanes"
compiled in it ran slower than in BASICA. Bob Wallace (who was still at
Microsoft) warned me to avoid the run-time library.
My FORTRAN experience was from fifteen years prior (PDQ FORTRAN, WATFOR,
and FORTRAN 4?), so, until I managed to catch up, I was teaching my
students to write FORTRAN programs in Fortran77.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred ci...@xenosoft.com
