[Beowulf] Fortran is Awesome

[Paul Edmon]

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 <sdm900 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:sdm900 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I agree 100% .  You can't beat bash and fortran.
>
>     On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 9:02 AM Paul Edmon <pedmon at cfa.harvard.edu
>     <mailto:pedmon at 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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