Fortran vs. C for numerical work

Ken Olstad olstad at uf.msc.umn.edu
Tue Nov 27 11:14:07 AEST 1990


paco at rice.edu (Paul Havlak) writes:
>   To paraphrase Jack Schwartz: 
>   "We don't know what the numerical programming language of the year 2000
>   will be called, but it will look like Fortran."
>

wvenable at spam.ua.oz.au (Bill Venables) writes:
>
> "We don't know what the numerical programming language of the year 2000
>  will look like, but it will be called Fortran."
>

I've always heard it closer to the latter, but attributed to Seymour
Cray.  Does anybody here really know where this came from?

-Ken
olstad at msc.edu



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