2 Oct
2024
2 Oct
'24
1:08 a.m.
Paul Winalski <paul.winalski(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Oct 1, 2024 at 9:13 AM
<arnold(a)skeeve.com> wrote:
In my head, FORTRAN is still FORTRAN 66, where there are no while
loops, or else statements, and the only data structure is the array.
For non-HPC stuff, C was a huge step up.
This goes back to the evolution thing. At the
time, C was a huge
step up from FORTRAN and assembly.
Certainly it's a step up (and a BIG step up) from assembly. But I'd say C
is a step sidewise from Fortran. An awful lot of HPTC programming involves
throwing multidimensional arrays around and C is not suitable for that.
-Paul W.