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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran (2015) by typon on Sunday October 15, 2017 @01:59PM (#15478218)
Why not create a DSL in C++ that gives you the same syntax as Fortran for doing array/matrix manipulations? That's really the one main advantage I gleaned from this article
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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran (2015) by quadruplebond on Sunday October 15, 2017 @08:09PM (#15480070)
Things like this exist but there are two issues. They aren’t part of the standard and Fortran compilers are better at optimizing built in Fortran abstractions than c++ compilers are at optimizing user made abstractions.

I suspect it’s the lack of standardization that’s really the issue.

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