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I thought this might be of interest to the CCP4 community: http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2006/11/the_c_is_efficient_language_fa.php "Posted on: November 2, 2006 9:31 AM, by Mark C. Chu-Carroll I came across an article yesterday about programming languages, which hit on one of my major peeves, so I can't resist responding. The article is at greythumb.org, and it's called Programmer's rant: what should and should not be added to C/C++. It's a variation on the extremely common belief that C and C++ are the best languages to use when you need code to run fast. They're not. They're good at things that need to get very close to the hardware - not in the efficiency sense, but in the sense of needing to be able to fairly directly munge the stack, address specific hardware registers, etc. But they are dreadful languages for writing real scientific and/or numerical code. ..." -- ======================================================================= With the single exception of Cornell, there is not a college in the United States where truth has ever been a welcome guest - R.G. Ingersoll ======================================================================= David J. Schuller modern man in a post-modern world MacCHESS, Cornell University [EMAIL PROTECTED]
