[Beowulf] Fortran is Awesome

[Paul Edmon]

Very true. I would never use Fortran for an OS.  From what I understand 
compiler writers still prefer Fortran as its easier to vectorize.  Thus 
if you want best vector performance from your code Fortran is it, mainly 
due to the easy of writing a compiler that can do so.

In the end use the tool that's best for the job.  That's the moral of 
the story.

-Paul Edmon-

On 11/28/2018 12:17 PM, Robert G. Brown wrote:
> 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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