Re: Three liars, in FORTRAN [long]

[Doug Craigen <dcc@CYBERSPC.MB.CA>]

James Mclean wrote:

> Huh?  I thought that the original attraction of C was that it was
> very "close to the machine", compared to comtemporaries FORTRAN and

That probably depends on the machine.  Write a unix shell script and you
can probably guess your way through the grammar of a C (or Perl)
program.  I believe that once the interpreter has loaded a Perl script
runs almost as fast as its compiled C counterpart because these
languages are so close to the machine.

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