Re: Suitability of Lua as a First Programming Language?

[Martin Krpan <wtxnh-lua@...>]

On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 02:12:06PM -0800, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> C was designed for writing systems programs - operating systems and
> compilers. It took about ten years for the compilers to get good
> enough for it to be competitive with FORTRAN for number crunching.

I have read many times that FORTRAN is better Than C for number
crunching buy I do not know WHY?

Obviously I am missing some knowledge therefore can somebody please
educate me as I do not thing that FORTRAN can calculate faster than C
statement like
c = a + b
or even
c = sqrt(exp(a, 2), exp(b, 2))
so what is that makes the difference...?

Martin