Re: Fortran vs C++ vs. etc (has little to do with realtime anymore)

[Xingzeng Liu <xliu@erdw.ethz.ch>]

It should be known that C++ and C are totally different languages. I
think for every one, to learn C++ is much more difficult than to learn
others. If you can learn C, FORTRAN, or PASCAL with 2 weeks, then I
think to learn C++ at least needs you 1 month. And you still need more
than 1 month to practice it, to know the real style of C++. 

I use C++ for 5 years. I think C++ is a very good language. It is much
suitable to do large complex simulations. It is reported in CERN that
their large C++ simulation software (transfered from their original
FORTRAN code) is faster than FORTRAN code. 

But for some small problem, C++ is not so good. And the depency of the
non-standard library is also a big problem for C++. The super point in
C++ is their ability to reuse. And there are so many different library
of the basic object library. You may find you loss yourself when work in
another platform.  It is also very weak in numerical computation. So now
I try to use FORTRAN 90. In my point of view, the new features such as
Module, type etc. much improve the convenice in writing programs.