Re: C vs. fortran

beliavsky_at_aol.com
Date: 01/02/05 

Date: 1 Jan 2005 16:42:11 -0800

>It is true that unadorned C doesn't have built-in
>matrix operators. I addressed that in another
>posting. If you need them they can be provided
>through preprocessing or by using C++ which
>allows user-defined objects to work with built-in
>operators. There is a limit to such facilities,
>however. Suppose I wanted the outer product of
>two vectors. Would I write A*B ? My bet is that
>that would have been defined as the inner product.
>How about the wedge product: A^B ? Most likely
>you end up having to use function notation anyway

In Fortran 90/95 you can define operators, so that

A .out. B

could represent the outer product of A and B. One does not need to use
function notation.

MATRAN at http://www.cs.umd.edu/~stewart/matran/Matran.html , an F95
program, does this kind of thing.