On 10/19/20, 8:15 AM, "Beowulf on behalf of Douglas Eadline"
<beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org on behalf of deadl...@eadline.org> wrote:
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>> Well, some of it surely comes from the fact that some of us (even older
>> ;)
> never wanted to touch Fortran with a 10-foot pole, so having a "modern"
> fortran means nothing.
I am curious why? It was designed for "FORmula TRANslation"
I, too, am curious. Aside from it being the first real compiled language, and
that I learned it as a child. Old style Fortran certainly isn't going to win
awards for making complex data structures like linked lists and trees (Although
it can and has been done - in the immortal words of Arne Saknussemm: quod feci)
- I think that someone who has a computing problem that needs that sort of data
structure is going to pick another language.
But for raw numerical crunching, it's pretty good - although I confess that
most of those algorithms are simple enough that ANY language is pretty easy to
use. Fortran does have a native COMPLEX type, which is exceedingly handy.
Sure, you can make structs with .r,.i and implement all the overloadings for
operators in other languages, and I'm sure someone has, but hey, when it's just
out of the box, it's easier.
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