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The Climate Models are in Fortran
- yannis 17y agoPAUSE GOTO http://j3-fortran.org/ http://j3-fortran.org/ It is my premise that every CS course should re-introduce Fortran! It is the oldest surviving computer language. Shouldn't evolutionary forces have wiped it out by now? Fortran and Cobol made America a place of successful big Science and Cobol made it great in Finance. Compare this with to-day's computer languages used for trading on the Stock Exchange, not only they messed trading but they also messed the World's Economic flora and fauna!
- mahmud 17y agoFortran persists because its first compiler has been so influential in compiler optimization research, the language has pretty much first-dips on any new performance improvements, and things that need to be fast are written in Fortran because of that. The power of convention, it boggles the mind.