[Beowulf] Fortran is Awesome

[Robert G. Brown]

On Wed, 28 Nov 2018, Paul Edmon wrote:

> Once C has native arrays and orders them properly, then we can talk :).

Yeah, like this.  That's really the big difference, isn't it?  Although
one can argue about just what "properly" really means... other than "in
the same order that Fortran orders them" ;-)

    rgb

> 
> -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> 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> 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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