Re:NASA: High Performance Fast Computing Challenge
by scottlocklin on Thursday May 04, 2017 @05:43PM
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It is also practically speaking kind of worthless for actual numerics compared to, say, LAPACK.
People who grouse about Fortran have almost never used it for its intended purpose. It solves a problem, and does so very well.
People who mention Julia, Python or Rust as replacements for Fortran simply do not know what they're talking about. You can do equivalent things in C++ or C, but you really shouldn't most of the time. Just as you shouldn't try to code up fancy data structures in Fortran.
People who grouse about Fortran have almost never used it for its intended purpose. It solves a problem, and does so very well. People who mention Julia, Python or Rust as replacements for Fortran simply do not know what they're talking about. You can do equivalent things in C++ or C, but you really shouldn't most of the time. Just as you shouldn't try to code up fancy data structures in Fortran.