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Not sure the Fortran dig is fair. FORTRAN77 was good for the applications it was designed for in 1978. Modern Fortran is still useful for scientific computing.
by i_am_proteus 8y ago
Not sure the Fortran dig is fair. FORTRAN77 was good for the applications it was designed for in 1978. Modern Fortran is still useful for scientific computing.
- yjftsjthsd-h 8y agoI would argue that even for the time early versions were not particularly ergonomic or nice to work with. And yes, I will actually be the first to defend modern Fortran; calling out older versions specifically was a very intentional choice on my part. Granted, I'm unclear on how much the newer variants are used; legacy code bases form a pretty big backlog.
- 4thaccount 8y agoThere's a brand new "Modern Fortran" book coming out of Manning publishing that covers parallel computing. As someone who doesn't program Fortran, but has read a lot of vendor Fortran (77' and 90') and C++, I vastly prefer Fortran. No, I wouldn't use it for a standard enterprise app, but it really shines for numeric computing where it has a lot of what is required baked into the native language. It is very fast and no-nonsense.