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Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 09:48:13 -0400
To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, jbryant@tfs.net
From: The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@cybercom.net>
Subject: Re: lib/libF77 and lib/libI77
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At 07:17 AM 9/15/97 +0000, Terry Lambert wrote:
>>> The ANSI/ISO standard for C++ specifies a complex number class.  And those
>>> vector class templates can be tacked together to make a matrix, and...
>> 
>> and of course, i'll use it when the supported code base is large
>> enough...  as far as the number of lines of fortran dealing with this
>> stuff: "billions and billions"...
>
>  [ edit of impressive mathematical ranting ]
>
>This type of code desn't tend to exist in C or C++ ...at least until
>after f2c has been run on it.  8-).  Even then it ends up being
>largely unreadable.  8-(.

Good enough to make a library. ;-)

K.S.