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A new, more user-friendly language for programming supercomputers
- Bostonian 7y ago'“We wanted to create a programming environment that doesn’t require every researcher to be a computer scientist,”' For the more than 60 years it has existed, most Fortran programmers have not been computer scientists. I wish the article had explained why the designers of the language are starting from scratch rather than building on Fortran, in particular Fortran 2008+, which introduced coarrays for parallel programming.
- pasttense01 7y agoIf anyone is interested in these (Regent and Legion) check out: https://legion.stanford.edu/ https://legion.stanford.edu/ Overview is at: https://legion.stanford.edu/overview/ https://legion.stanford.edu/overview/