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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: Why is Ada considered  "too specialized" for scientific use
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 09:44:15 -0700
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Georg Bauhaus <rm-host.bauhaus@maps.futureapps.de> writes:
[...]
> C99 (note the year) has complex types,  says C hasn't.  Well, it
> hadn't, as some point in the last century.
[...]

Unfortunately, the C99 standard has not yet been universally adopted.
Very few compilers fully support it.  Many support most of it,
but I understand that Microsoft's compiler still supports only C90
(with maybe a handful of C99-specific features).

Which means that as soon as you write "#include <complex.h>", you've
limited the portability of your program.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
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