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Nowhere near the same situation but the same spirit, a lot of computational science still uses fortran (f90, thankfully for more modern codes) and has resisted
by noobermin 4y ago
Nowhere near the same situation but the same spirit, a lot of computational science still uses fortran (f90, thankfully for more modern codes) and has resisted the push to use C++ like everyone else. Fortran still is the right tool for numerical software, so it's good we avoided the bandwagon.
- kqr 4y agoA relative of mine had a huge fight at work a few years ago with younger management who wanted to re-write the core of their simulation software in Java, instead of maintaining the Fortran code. I trust his judgment when he said it would be a bad idea.