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Author Re: Newbie Question - Using FORTRAN for traffic microsimulation
Gerry Thomas

2004-06-04, 3:58 pm


"iantheengineer" <do@youthinkimdaftenuff.edu> wrote in message
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> "Gerry Thomas" <gfthomas@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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> What are you suggesting I use as an alternate, I picked
> FORTRAN as I knew a little and had alook at C and it looked difficult for
> the mathematical prts compared to FORTRAN
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Yes, for someone who knows a little FORTRAN 77 and views C as difficult,
MATLAB/SIMULINK is the way to go its language being much simpler. Google on
MATLAB for traffic simulations and you'll realize that you're not the first
on the block. If it pans out compile your project to C/C++.

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Ciao,
Gerry T.
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"The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure
uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities,
that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes
the sense that there is an outside." -- Allan Bloom, in The Closing of the
American Mind.



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