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+1. The extent of my use of LA in Fortran is pretty much BLAS/LAPACK. But for pretty much everything else numerical it still wins handily, at least for my uses
by tanderson92 11y ago
+1. The extent of my use of LA in Fortran is pretty much BLAS/LAPACK. But for pretty much everything else numerical it still wins handily, at least for my uses (numerical PDEs, FFTs).
It likely seems niche to most programmers, but array slicing is such a godsend to certain areas of software that there really is no more natural language to write a code in. There is Matlab, but its purpose is for prototyping. In fact it is a major credit to Matlab that the conversion is very natural.
This niche is why Fortran exists and has such a strong following. And the more modern features are like candy sprinkled on the core features. I could write a sonnet about modern fortran.