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The issue was when those statements were made computers were super slow. This was where FORTRAN became king of scientific computing.
by baldfat 10y ago
The issue was when those statements were made computers were super slow. This was where FORTRAN became king of scientific computing.
- pjmlp 10y agoThose were the 50 and 60's, C was yet to be invented and only became competitive against Fortran compilers after restrict was added (C99) and the special scientific extensions from the ANSI working group for numerical computing. Should C compiler vendors also given up against Fortran compilers?