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>as legacy as Fortran is now Disappointingly because modern Fortran is a nice language for numerical computing.
by forgotpwd16 4y ago
>as legacy as Fortran is now
Disappointingly because modern Fortran is a nice language for numerical computing.
- catchclose8919 4y agoCompared to C, sure it is. Probably compared to C++ to since it's less opportunity for obsfucation. Compared to anything else probably not.
- forgotpwd16 4y agoIssue is most such codes are written in C and C++. Also anything else usually lacks native multidimensional arrays, element-wise array operations, and parallel programming facilities, let alone raw performance.