Re: Fortran vs. C (was Re: Ken & Klaus.)

From: Linønut (linønut_at_bone.com)
Date: 09/24/04 

Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:38:20 -0500

Error BR-549: MS DRM 1.0 rejects the following post from jmfbahciv@aol.com:

>>I used FORTRAN for quite awhile. When I found out about C, I felt
>>liberated.
>
> And whose math library did you use? Fortran's?

C's. For complex numbers, I wrote my own little library. Not very nice
notationally, of course. For FFT's, converted the code from IEEE. For
surface plotting, converted the code from Cosmic.

I see your point, but it was not much of an issue in the application domain
in which I worked at that time.

>>What is the most suitable language for developing and OS, and what OS
>>is developed using it?
>
> That all depends on what the OS is supposed to do. Choosing
> the implementation language is one piece of designing an operating
> system.

A helpful answer.

>>Ada? Ugh. To reminiscent of >chokes heaves pukes< Pascal.
>
> Some people think that way naturally. I call it programming
> style. Mr. Metz thinks very, very strangely from my POV ;-). You
> can guess what each guy's language of choice is by observing
> how they think.

I've been wondering about the thought processes of people who use
C# and Java.

> /BAH

Booz*Allen & Hamilton? 

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