OpenEuphoria

RE: Hey

• Posted by Rolf Schröder <Rolf.Schroeder at desy.de> Aug 19, 2004
• 424 views

Ricardo M. Forno wrote:
> 
> I don't think FORTRAN is more mathematical than EUPHORIA. On the contrary,
> FORTRAN is less flexible than most modern languages from the mathemathical
> point of view.

Ricardo, I don't know who started to reflex about FORTRAN here. But one thing is
indeed the truth: FORTRAN contains not only plenty of mathematical functions,
it has also the data type COMPLEX (and plenty of complex functions)! Therefor,
you are able to do things which are not easy to realize in EUPHORIA, like
complex arrays! Unfortunately EUPHORIAs 'atom' contains only integers and
real numbers, but not complex numbers.

If the atom would also contain complex numbers, then all kind of FORTRAN
programs could easily be transformed into EUPHORIA (except for execution
speed).

Nave a nice day, Rolf

 

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