Why physicists still use Fortran

Re:Why physicists still use Fortran by greglindahl on Monday December 19, 2016 @12:21AM (#13209629)

Are there any users that are science academics? I wasn't talking about computer scientists / computer graphics / visualization researchers at all in this thread; they do great with C++. I clicked on a bunch of links of the users of this library and didn't see any physics, astronomy, chemistry, fluid dynamics, etc.

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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran by ryescienceguy on Monday December 19, 2016 @01:49AM (#13209884)

Not sure! We are using it in (non-academic) CFD work.

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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran by greglindahl on Monday December 19, 2016 @02:08AM (#13209942)

So it sounds like you're somewhat like the folks I'm talking about, even if the other users of this code are not... but have you had a lot of turnover of your coders, like grad students and postdocs that turn over every 2-4 years? Because that was the full nature of my complaint: science not-computer-scientists over several maintainers doing better in Fortran.

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