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Yeah, I'm not expert on Fortran use back in those time, it's just more used as an example of a language that at one point in time was much more popular than ano
by fhrow4484 8y ago
Yeah, I'm not expert on Fortran use back in those time, it's just more used as an example of a language that at one point in time was much more popular than another.
For instance the amount of Fortran code and libraries in 1979 was probably order of magnitude bigger than the amount of C code. Was there more general purpose language that C was competing with back in the time?
I guess picking C as the old language and C++ as the new would have make the example clearer :)
But yeah I agree, and believe Fortran is still being used heavily in scientific computing!
- pjmlp 8y ago> Was there more general purpose language that C was competing with back in the time? Plenty of Algol and PL/I variants. C had an almost free OS with source code going for it, had UNIX been a commercial offering right from the start with a price tag similar to systems like OS/360 or VMS, and the outcome would have been completely different.