So-Called Real Programmers and FORTRAN - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

7 May 2002

From: Carlos Murillo &lt;carlos_murillo(a)epm.net.co&gt;
...
 I went from HP3000 BASIC to UCSD Pascal.  I liked it. 
In retrospect,
the things that suck about Pascal are the argument passing mechanism
and strings.  C is better essentially because it lets you manage
memory directly, without predefined string sizes.  And it lets you
handle the guts. 
When I dont want to see the underlying machine Pascal is very nice
and has proven very portable.  When I need to get at the underlying
machine and don't wish to use assembler then C wins usually at the
expense of some portability.

...
 (portable) code, and Matlab and FORTRAN rule in that
realm. Yes, FORTRAN. :-)

Fortran is old but well proven.

Allison