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No, of course not. There are still machines with FORTRAN but not C; there are more which support FORTRAN well and C badly. I just think they are rare compared to the swamp of machines with C but no FORTRAN. Sure. But in that respect C is no different from FORTRAN. (The presence of support aside, FORTRAN is usually a better language than C for heavy numerical code, which is what "scientific programming" usually means in my experience. FORTRAN was designed for that, while C was designed as an OS implementation language. That neither is all that great at the other's task is hardly a surprise.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B