Fortran was the second programming language I learned, behind BASIC. I
took Fortran classes in high school, and then was required to take Intro
to Fortran for Engineers class freshman year of college. As a result, I
took multi-dimensional arrays for granted. Years later, I tried created
a multi-dimensional array in C. What the hell, C?
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Prentice
On 11/28/18 11:50 AM, Paul Edmon wrote:
It's still the case the for intense numerical analysis Fortran is best
even though the gap between it and C has diminished. Being a
computational astrophysicist by training I can speak from experience
that Fortran is superior to C for doing serious numerical work at
scale. What Fortran does well it does very well, and it still does
very well.
Once C has native arrays and orders them properly, then we can talk :).
-Paul Edmon-
On 11/28/18 11:36 AM, Peter St. John wrote:
Maybe I'm being too serious but in the old days, Fortran was the most
mature, maintained compiler and the libraries were great, then later,
C had better compilers but the libraries were still great. Now, I
think the only good thing about Fortran is that it's pretty easy to
learn?
Peter
On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 11:30 AM Stu Midgley <sdm...@gmail.com
<mailto:sdm...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I agree 100% . You can't beat bash and fortran.
On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 9:02 AM Paul Edmon
<ped...@cfa.harvard.edu <mailto:ped...@cfa.harvard.edu>> wrote:
Fortran is and remains an awesome language. More people
should use it:
https://wordsandbuttons.online/fortran_is_still_a_thing.html
-Paul Edmon-
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