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From: Scott Johnson <sj_nospam@nospam.aracnet.com>
Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java
Date: 1999/01/27
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Ken wrote:
> 
> Patrick Wibbeler wrote:
> >
> > Or Her.
> >
> 
>  Like there isn't already too much political correctness in the world.
> Besides, most female programmers I know would choose a more up to date
> language than Fortran, like C, C++, or Java, depending on the situation
> they are programming in.

What's wrong with Fortran?

If you are writing a control system, or a UI, or an OS kernel,
the answer of course is "plenty".

If you are writing code for number-crunching, though, Fortran
(or FORTRAN for the purists who insist that the current version
of the language is an abomination--an argument I will avoid) is still
a great language.  Its lack of aliasing makes it VERY easy to
parallelize, and allows many optimizations which are unsafe in C.
(Though C9X may change the latter situation...)

Plus, the numerics libraries available for FORTRAN are quite powerful.

Scott