C Versus Fortran-77 for Scientific Programming

The predominant programming language for numeric and scientific applications is Fortran-77 and supercomputers are primarily used to run large-scale numeric and scientific applications. Standard C* is not widely used for numerical and scientific programming, yet Standard C provides many desirable lin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tom MacDonald
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 1992-01-01
Series:Scientific Programming
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1992/439510