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Both languages have their standards updated still, latest year in both cases was 2023. Fortran is one of the reasons OpenCL lost to CUDA, and now even AMD and

by pjmlp 7mo ago

Both languages have their standards updated still, latest year in both cases was 2023. Fortran is one of the reasons OpenCL lost to CUDA, and now even AMD and Intel have finally Fortran support on their own stacks, not Khronos based. https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-fortran https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-fortran Whereas Cobol, even has cloud and microservices. https://www.rocketsoftware.com/en-us/products/cobol/visual-cobol https://www.rocketsoftware.com/en-us/products/cobol/visual-c... https://aws.amazon.com/mainframe/ https://aws.amazon.com/mainframe/ Incredible how being monetary relevant keeps some languages going. Also note how the beloved UNIX and C are from 1971 - 73, only about 10 younger than COBOL.

kergonath 7mo ago
> Fortran is one of the reasons OpenCL lost to CUDA, and now even AMD and Intel have finally Fortran support on their own stacks, not Khronos based. FWIW, I loved using CUDA-Fortran. I think the ease of use of array variables maps very well with the way CUDA kernels work. It feels much more natural than in C++.