Hello,
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 09:15:52 +0200, Drew McCormack
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>One thing which I haven't seen brought up, which is in favor of higher
>level languages like C++ and Java, is algorithmic performance. The
>algorithm you choose can often be much more important than the extra
>cycles a compiler can save you. An advantage with C++/Java like
>languages is simply that they are better at abstraction, and this can
>make writing complex algorithms easier. The fortran version of the
>algorithm would nearly always run faster, but writing the fortran
>version may be considerably harder.
How, exactly, are C++ and Java "better at abstraction"
than Fortran 2003?
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Cheers!
Dan Nagle
Purple Sage Computing Solutions, Inc.
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