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beliavsky_at_aol.com
Date: 12/26/04 

Date: 26 Dec 2004 05:28:03 -0800

Harlan Grove wrote:
>That leaves the syntactic and semantic aspects of the languages. On an
>aesthetic level I don't like VB. I find it too verbose, and substring
>operations are klunky. C (dunno about C#) and Perl have better control
>structures. Perl has more built-in data structures. Nearly all other
>languages are available on other OSs. VB is Windows only. I realize
that
>doesn't matter to you, but you're so short-sighted about software your
>opinion doesn't really count.

Regarding syntax, I like the fact that VB and its distant relative
Fortran do not need semicolons to terminate statements or curly braces
for blocks. C lacks the exponentiation operator of those two.
Dynamically allocating a 3D array is simple in VB or Fortran

Basic:
dim x() as double
redim x(n1,n2,n3)

Fortran 90:
real, allocatable :: x(:,:,:)
allocate x(n1,n2,n3)

C:
mess involving pointers to pointers to pointers

C is a lower level language than VB or Fortran. It is good for writing
an operating system or compiler.

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