One misunderstanding people have about Fortran is that they always want
to compare it to C. C is more of a 'general purpose' language that was
originally designed for low-level programming tasks, like programming
operating systems without using assembly. On the other hand, Fortran is
a domain-specific language meant for one specific purpose: numerical
programming.
Comparing these two languages to each other is like comparing an SUV to
a Ferrari. The have completely different design goals, so have
completely different strengths and weaknesses. Once you explain that to
someone who says "OMG! You know people who still use Fortran", they
usually get it.
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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