TY - JOUR AU - Vieira, Wilson da Cruz AU - Santana de Lelis, Levi H. PY - 2015/06/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES IN ECONOMICS: A COMPARISON AMONG FORTRAN77, C++, AND JAVA JF - Revista de Economia e Agronegócio JA - REA VL - 3 IS - 3 SE - Artigos DO - 10.25070/rea.v3i3.65 UR - https://periodicos.ufv.br/rea/article/view/7389 SP - AB - <p>The main objective of this paper was to compare the computer programming<br />languages Fortran77, C++, and Java under four aspects: runtime efficiency, readability,<br />ease of learning, and reliability. For this comparison, we revised the specialized literature<br />on programming languages and used pieces of codes of these three programming languages.<br />The purpose of this comparison was to provide some objective information for<br />economists interested in learning one or more of these languages.</p> ER -