1 Oct
2024
1 Oct
'24
10:40 p.m.
On Tue, Oct 1, 2024 at 9:13 AM <arnold(a)skeeve.com> wrote:
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.