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Also, Fortran has progressed immensely since F77 days. (I actually wrote some F77 code back in the day, when it was already ancient.) C has also progressed quit

by nine_k 2y ago

Also, Fortran has progressed immensely since F77 days. (I actually wrote some F77 code back in the day, when it was already ancient.) C has also progressed quite a bit since K&R days, but, to my mind, not nearly as much.

cozzyd 2y ago
right, the problem for scipy developers I believe is that not enough of them know fortran, whereas C knowledge is necessary to hack on CPython native extensions.
holdenweb 2y ago
Oh, my God, I actually wrote some code in Fortran 2 back in 1969! It's certainly a much better language now!