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Treating sequences as strings of characters is a peculiarity, but it really isn't much like text. The operations you would expect to perform on text like upperc
by madhadron 6y ago
Treating sequences as strings of characters is a peculiarity, but it really isn't much like text. The operations you would expect to perform on text like uppercase, lowercase, tokenize at word boundaries, etc. are irrelevant. The operations that you perform on sequences like reverse, reverse complement, align, edit distance are separate. No reason why FORTRAN couldn't do great for that.
- elcritch 6y agoIIRC, modern versions of 'FORTRAN' dropped the all caps name. So Fortran 90+ is standard now and implies modern fortran version.
- coldcode 6y agoMy first ever professional program was a source code formatter (for Jovial language) written in Fortran (77 I think). Writing a parser in Fortran (early 80's) is an exercise I am glad I never had to repeat.