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Like it or not, there still exist many important and frequently used programs which are only written in fortran. People absolutely should be interested in maint
by saboot 11y ago
Like it or not, there still exist many important and frequently used programs which are only written in fortran. People absolutely should be interested in maintaining a fortran compiler.
- wtallis 11y agoYeah, there's little reason to write new code in Fortran, but there's definitely a need for current binaries of all those existing mature and well-designed Fortran libraries.
- csl 11y agoI work with reservoir modelling, and it continues to amaze me that everyone coming from non-CS fields seem to have programmed solely in Fortran. Besides, I believe the Intel Fortran compiler is extremely fast. I wouldn't say there's no reason to write new programs in Fortran.
- aeroevan 11y agoI find it's much easier to write code that uses multidimensional arrays in Fortan than almost any other language. Sure, i/o isn't as nice and don't try to do anything fancy with strings, but for numbers it's hard to beat.