Last time I looked at C, the libraries had yet to be ported to C99. You had to choose between z = u + 2 * i * w, or zs = fft(ws); you couldn't have both. Ther

Last time I looked at C, the libraries had yet to be ported to C99. You had to choose between z = u + 2 * i * w, or zs = fft(ws); you couldn't have both. Therefore Fortran kept winning.