[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi there,
> Stefan wrote:
>
> > I've been wondering if there's any point in continuing the C ports.
> Thus
> > I'd like to hear from people who still use them to get an idea of how
> many
> > of you there are (if any).
C is presently the most portable language. Note that musixflx was
initially written in Fortran, and it HAD TO be ported to C because many
people had a compiler and NOT a Fortran.
Allc omputers which possesss compiler have at least a C compiler.
>
> I think that the C version is worth to be supported for the following
> reasons:
> - the standard language for linux-systems is and (hopefully will remain)
> C / C++
> - FORTRAN is the ugliest language ever seen in this world (ok, I admit
> there is COBOL... ;-) )
Ugly, yes. But more strictly typed than C which confuses characters and
integers!
> Ingo
>
> (...sorry, but I hate FORTRAN, imho it should be burned, burried and be
> forgotten...)
You may hate it (and although its my mother language, I hate its
restrictions),
but you must be aware that 40 years of scientific programming is
archived in Fortran.
Would you like to destroy all that?
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