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The fact that “The State of Fortran” is a paper on arXiv instead of a blog post actually says a lot about the state of Fortran.
by jordemort 5y ago
The fact that “The State of Fortran” is a paper on arXiv instead of a blog post actually says a lot about the state of Fortran.
- urda 5y agoWhat value does your suggestion have here? I think you might be placing way too much value on a blog post.
- agucova 5y agoThis only speaks to the academic nature of Fortran, and there's nothing wrong about it.
- kergonath 5y agoWhat do you mean? It’s a paper written by several people on the standard committee of who contributed to the draft standard, on which blog would they put it? Traditionally, these things were published in ACM SIGPLAN Fortran Forum (or on NAG’s servers for historical reasons). Arxiv is really natural, given the direction scientific and technical publishing is taking. This is a heavy duty language used by scientists and people like mechanical and nuclear engineers. Not the latest JavaScript framework or full stack doodad from Google.
- shadowofneptune 5y agoOh yeah, a blog. Really keeping up with the times there compared to a paper.
- pjmlp 5y agoIndeed, it isn't something that is only cool for a month or to be embraced by magpie developers.
- buescher 5y agoI read that as "with all the good and bad that implies". That others didn't... well that's Fortran for you. Or maybe just hackernews.
- shadowofneptune 5y agoI didn't even consider it in a good light because it was posted on this site, yes. If it was made positively, I apologize to the OP.
- jordemort 5y agoYeah, I didn't mean it pejoratively, just that it's an indicator that the Fortran community is a very different scene from what you might find around other programming languages that are typically discussed here.
- milancurcic 5y agoThe paper is published and available in early access in IEEE CiSE: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9736688 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9736688