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You are making a broad characterization of Fortran as superior in "certain ways" to other languages. I'd love to read a justification of that claim, perhaps in
by chmaynard 10y ago
You are making a broad characterization of Fortran as superior in "certain ways" to other languages. I'd love to read a justification of that claim, perhaps in a blog post.
One could argue that because Cobol is the language of choice for large banks using mainframes, it is superior at doing tasks required by financial applications. Somehow I doubt that it has anything to do with that.
- hellofunk 10y agoThere have been several discussions here on HN recently about some of the particular features of Fortran that I'm referring to.
- chmaynard 10y agoI did a quick Algolia search for stories posted in the last year on HN with "Fortran" in the title. I couldn't find any articles that compare Fortran language/compiler features with other languages. Maybe you could help me out?
- hellofunk 10y agoYou're not searching very hard. Here's one, with some comments from me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11938405 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11938405