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Are you saying that Fortran was once a general purpose programming language, but somehow changed to no longer be one?
by pklausler 1y ago
Are you saying that Fortran was once a general purpose programming language, but somehow changed to no longer be one?
- pjmlp 1y agoYes, because we are no longer in the 1960's - 1980's. C and C++ took over many of the use cases people where using Fortran for during those decades. In 2025, while it is a general purpose language, its use is constrained to scientific computing and HPC. Most wannabe CUDA replacements keep forgetting Fortran is one of the reasons scientific community ignored OpenCL.
- pklausler 1y agoSo you're saying that the changes made to Fortran have made it more specialized?