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I'm going to take this in good faith and assume that you are thinking of old school FORTRAN77. Modern Fortran (90 and onwards) is a very different language in m
by hdfbdtbcdg 7y ago
I'm going to take this in good faith and assume that you are thinking of old school FORTRAN77. Modern Fortran (90 and onwards) is a very different language in many ways whilst maintaining high backwards compatibility. You should check out modern versions of the language and code examples.
Fortran is a language more suited for numerical computing than C++. Modern Fortran is simpler, more maintable and more easily optimised than C++. Yes one could pick a subset of C/C++ and write fast numerical code but it would require more work and more discipline than using modern Fortran.
- zorked 7y agoWhere does the Modern Fortran community congregate? Any websites or mailing lists?
- wycy 7y agoSome of us are at /r/fortran
- chestervonwinch 7y agoMore so you’ll find its usage clustered in academia in areas you might expect, eg, numerical linear algebra, stuff involving solving PDEs.
- endoftime5 7y agoQuite a healthy community on github producing nice modern Fortran code! https://github.com/Fortran-FOSS-Programmers https://github.com/Fortran-FOSS-Programmers
- SiempreViernes 7y agoThat's a bit more energy than I would use for describing the activity in the group :) Last time I think I saw any action was the heated debate about goto:s in the style guide ;)
- simonbyrne 7y agoAm I missing something? Other than the doc generator (which is in Python), none of the repos have been touched for a year or so.