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I have to use Fortan as part of my day job and mostly don't like it. What I hate most of all are the lack of any decent string data type and built in C++-STL-li

by xioxox 8y ago

I have to use Fortan as part of my day job and mostly don't like it. What I hate most of all are the lack of any decent string data type and built in C++-STL-like data structures library. It would be great to have hash maps, etc. The poor built in library compared to Python and Scipy is extremely frustrating. It's very hard to get anything done which is not just array manipulation.

Tor3 8y ago
The Fortran I worked with in my minicomputer days was for the most part 100% standard, the exception was its string handling.. which was excellent. So I wrote all kinds of text translating tools (and lots of other tools) using that Fortran compiler. That was a long time ago..