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By functional Fortran, do you mean like a "functional programming language" or "more productive Fortran"? As one who has developed in Fortran before, I would al
by bmh100 12y ago
By functional Fortran, do you mean like a "functional programming language" or "more productive Fortran"? As one who has developed in Fortran before, I would also like to see enhanced functional capabilities, as well as a more productive way to write code. I have spent so much time on declaring variables and function arguments over and over across subroutines that it becomes quite a pain. To avoid writing many subroutine interfaces, I also tend to put everything in a single module. My dream is to combine the expressiveness of Lisp with the numerical performance and memory efficiency of Fortran and C.
- phabian 12y agoWhat happened with Fortress, fortran like enchanced language Guy Steele was developing with his team?
- bmh100 12y agoI had not heard of Fortress before. It seems that Oracle's sponsorship of the project ended in 2012. Guy Steele emphasizes the difficulty of implementing Fortress's type system on virtual machines. [1] [1]: https://blogs.oracle.com/projectfortress/entry/fortress_wrapping_up https://blogs.oracle.com/projectfortress/entry/fortress_wrap...
- Immortalin 12y agoBoth :D