[Beowulf] Fortran is Awesome
Paul Edmon
pedmon at cfa.harvard.edu
Wed Nov 28 08:50:38 PST 2018
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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