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Do people actually use modern versions of Fortran though? I learned it in university in 2004, and we used Fortran 90 because F95 was considered “too new”, and o
by labster 3y ago
Do people actually use modern versions of Fortran though? I learned it in university in 2004, and we used Fortran 90 because F95 was considered “too new”, and one still encountered a lot of Fortran 77.
- ivanpribec 3y agoThey do. Some national HPC centers offer Fortran courses including elements of Fortran 2018 [1,2], including the latest features. (Disclaimer: I work at one.) The Intel Fortran compiler already includes some Fortran 2023 features [3]. [1] https://doku.lrz.de/programming-with-fortran-10746212.html https://doku.lrz.de/programming-with-fortran-10746212.html [2] https://doku.lrz.de/prace-course-advanced-fortran-topics-10746213.html https://doku.lrz.de/prace-course-advanced-fortran-topics-107... [3] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/release-notes/oneapi-fortran-compiler-release-notes.html https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/r...
- kergonath 3y agoI’d evolved since then. Support for Fortran 2018 is reasonable in gfortran and you can count on almost all of Fortran 2008 and before.