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> The sooner we can forget that FORTRAN has ever existed, the better, for as a vehicle of thought it is no longer adequate: it wastes our brainpower, is too ris
by selcuka 1y ago
> The sooner we can forget that FORTRAN has ever existed, the better, for as a vehicle of thought it is no longer adequate: it wastes our brainpower, is too risky and therefore too expensive to use.
Apparently the ISO/IEC 1539-1:2023 [1] committee didn't get the memo.
[1] https://www.iso.org/standard/82170.html https://www.iso.org/standard/82170.html
- pjmlp 1y agoModern Fortran is quite neat, and much better than having to deal with Python + rewriting code into C and C++.
- selcuka 1y agoSure, I was joking. I haven't used anything that's more recent than Fortran 77 (Fortran 90 was a thing, but WATFOR didn't support it, so we had to stick with the older spec). I'm sure it's more enjoyable now. To be honest it wasn't that bad back then either.
- pjmlp 1y agoAs language nerd I tend to follow up in many domains, even if I don't use said tools daily. A good refresher was reading "Modern FORTRAN: Building Efficient Parallel Applications". https://www.manning.com/books/modern-fortran https://www.manning.com/books/modern-fortran