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Absolutely; modern Fortran is great and is syntactically rather close to Matlab (and to an extent R as well). The main difficulty with Fortran is IMO the lack
by xixi77 11y ago
Absolutely; modern Fortran is great and is syntactically rather close to Matlab (and to an extent R as well).
The main difficulty with Fortran is IMO the lack of an extensive standard library -- sure, you can find code out there to do almost anything, but then you need to figure out linking/calling conventions/possibly incompatible data models for each new library you bring in...
But, as another poster mentioned, it is quite straightforward to call Fortran from R :)
- nutate 11y agomatlab was originally released as a fortran library (pre 1.0), so it keeps a lot of that heritage even though it's probably c/c++ now: http://www.mathworks.com/company/newsletters/articles/the-origins-of-matlab.html http://www.mathworks.com/company/newsletters/articles/the-or...
- xixi77 11y agoYeah -- although doesn't it actually pre-date Fortran 90? I wonder which direction the influence went :)