About programing, a general question

[Joe Zeff]

On 12/22/2010 12:08 PM, Matt Smith wrote:
> I have to disagree, if utilized properly managing memory, optimizing
> the cache, etc is very possible with c++ and can absolutely work well
> in a high performance environment

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If you can't do what's needed in FORTRAN, you can't do it.  Back in the 
early '80s, I was working with Dan Alderson at JPL.  We were doing work 
with structures and pointer arithmetic, in FORTRAN77 because it was a 
subroutine and function package to be used in other FORTRAN programs so 
we couldn't use Dan's favorite language, PL/1.  Those of you who think 
you can't do things like that in FORTRAN would do well to ponder the 
fact that Jerry Pournelle has called Dan "the sane genius."

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