Re:Conflating pointers with arrays: C's biggest mistake? (2009)
by macintux on Sunday July 22, 2018 @10:57PM
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Without knowing Fortran, I’d speculate it’s easier to maintain backwards compatibility in a language that doesn’t have as direct a mapping to hardware as C. Fortran seems to have more abstractions built in.
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Re:Conflating pointers with arrays: C's biggest mistake? (2009)
by geoalchimista on Monday July 23, 2018 @12:43PM
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That's true. It predated C but even then abstracted the user away from the hardware (and still does). I wouldn't suggest any use of Fortran beyond number crunching and array arithmetic.