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Most everything here is subjective, inaccurate, or outdated by C99, save Fortran's multi-dimensional array handling which is legitimately superior to C despite
by jedbrown 10y ago
Most everything here is subjective, inaccurate, or outdated by C99, save Fortran's multi-dimensional array handling which is legitimately superior to C despite partial reconciliation by VLAs.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoWell, darn, there goes that. I'll have to re-examine it with C99 reference to assess it's accuracy.
- pjc50 10y agoI don't think it's quite that bad, but "for numeric programming" is a very important caveat here. As is "define higher-level".
- nickpsecurity 10y agoI think higher level would be effecient, English-like representation that's closer to algorithm pseudo-code than managing machine details.