tomandersen

In canada auto trader rules: they seem to have every car for sale listed, both by dealers and private. Its nice to only go to one place, but will these data owners pull out on you?

Fortran was designed to munch numbers. As most programs are written by people who will not spend much time getting that last 3x of performance out, a language like Fortran makes sense for the number crunchers. Its easier to screw up in C. These kinds of tests are not all that great, as the code is optimized. Its un-optimized code that matters, since that powers the world.

Ahh, getting to the metal. Only in C do I get that feeling. For some reason even C++ just fails on that 'fresh metallic taste' test.

Most code should not be C.