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> Using f2c as suggested seems like a worse alternative, not a solution. essentially madness. Modern fortran is quite nice, much nicer than C from a Python pr
by wirrbel 3y ago
> Using f2c as suggested seems like a worse alternative, not a solution.
essentially madness.
Modern fortran is quite nice, much nicer than C from a Python programmer's perspective.
- zaikunzhang 3y ago> Modern fortran is quite nice, much nicer than C from a Python programmer's perspective. Totally agree. I hope everyone making comments on Fortran can spend a few minitues reading what modern Fortran is, e.g., by checking https://fortran-lang.org/en/ https://fortran-lang.org/en/
- drbaba 3y agoI used Fortran 2008 a lot some years ago; initially I wanted to write a C++ wrapper around a Fortran library that seemed useful, but ended up liking the language better than C++ and just did the whole project in it. I think a lot of people don’t realize that modern Fortran actually supports object-oriented programming and Matlab-style array slicing, and comes with built-in support for e.g. matrices and complex numbers. It even has some features inspired by functional languages, like being able to mark functions as pure (side-effect free). Combined with its general speed, this makes it a pretty nice language for numerical code. Although for most new users, I think Julia might be a better option than Fortran these days.