Why physicists still use Fortran

Re:Why physicists still use Fortran by davidf18 on Sunday December 18, 2016 @04:43PM (#13207823)

It seems like a number of R packages use Fortran. I'm on Mac and it needs to Fortran compiler to be installed so that at least some of the R packages can be compiled when doing updates.

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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran by bachmeier on Sunday December 18, 2016 @04:56PM (#13207906)

R (the language, originally S) was created to be a "glue language" for compiled code, most of which was written in FORTRAN.

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