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Why learn Fortran?

Why learn Fortran?

Posted Jun 30, 2012 20:59 UTC (Sat) by cmccabe (guest, #60281)
In reply to: Why learn Fortran? by daniel
Parent article: Why learn C? (O'Reilly Radar)

> Why not learn every legacy language? C++ completely and utterly
> obsoletes C except for legacy applications and a few small areas
> where C is superior, designated intializers for example. Otherwise,
> C is just for legacy C applications.

I disagree with your opinion that "C++... obsoletes C."

However, this is all off-topic here, because the article is about "why learn C?" and learning C is a prerequisite for learning C++.


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