[Beowulf] Fortran is Awesome

[Nathan Moore]

I've probably mentioned this before.  If a student only has one programming
course, teaching fortran feels like malpractice, however, this book is
awesome!

Classical Fortran, Kupferschmid

https://www.crcpress.com/Classical-Fortran-Programming-for-Engineering-and-Scientific-Applications/Kupferschmid/p/book/9781138116436

Nathan

On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 12:15 PM Paul Edmon <pedmon at cfa.harvard.edu> wrote:

> 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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> >> --
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