Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-programming (84 mails)

["William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@xxxxxxxxxx>]

John Lamb wrote:

> William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>
> > > I don't suppose there's any way I could persuade you to try using 
> > > C++ or C instead of FORTRAN (I gave up FORTRAN in 1988 and haven't 
> > > looked back). If you're calling C functions, then I guess you just 
> > > look for the declarations in an include directory and use the 
> > > program above (compile it gcc name.c and run it ./a.out) to identify 
> > > the actual sizes.
> >
> > FORTRAN is still as much as 75% faster than C/C++ with good compilers 
> > (SGI & Intel under various linuces, including SuSE), I have seen that 
> > without fail. If you are doing runs which take days to complete, the 
> > difference definitely counts.
>
> I guess you don't do C/C++ then. Could I interest you in java or python?
By the by, I do do some C & (frankly) like it. Almost all new stuff I 
write is, in fact, in C (no good w/ C++ yet ....), unless there are 
definite speed requirements, whence I go to FORTRAN.