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The same is likely true of Fortran, since Fortran code is shipped around with several Python data science libraries and included in R. Does that mean Fortran is
by mytherin 6y ago
The same is likely true of Fortran, since Fortran code is shipped around with several Python data science libraries and included in R. Does that mean Fortran is a thriving language, or does it just mean Fortran was used a long time ago to write some important libraries that are now hard to get rid of?
- pjmlp 6y agoExcept Fortran 2018 is quite modern, supports modules, generics, and even OOP, first class support on CUDA alongside C++, whereas C18 hardly changed since C89 besides some cosmetic stuff and it is as secure as when it got used to rewrite UNIX in the early 70s.
- estebank 6y agoIt could be argued though that less usage means fewer stake holders to convince of the need for specific changes to the language, which helps with increased evolution. (I have only cursory knowledge of what's happening in C and none about what's happening in Pascal nowadays, just pointing out that being a smaller community might ironically help the language).