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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran (2015) by quadruplebond on Sunday October 15, 2017 @06:42PM (#15479745)
It’s partly the power of library authoring that is moving things I think. To my knowlegdge most post lapack tensor algebra is all C/C++ also. I don’t know Fortran but I am not sure if it has the same flexibility when it comes to generic code and things like writing things like template expression math codes.

Finally the fact that groups like Facebook and google are writing their machine learning code in C++ shows that 1 they find it useful and 2 plenty performant. This kinda became a response to the comment above yours sorry.

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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran (2015) by sseagull on Sunday October 15, 2017 @07:21PM (#15479916)
If you don't mind, I'd like to maybe chat with you a bit and get your opinion on some things (and maybe see if I've actually met you before). My (mainly throwaway) email is ytterbium35 (at major email service run by google).

If you don't feel like it, feel free to ignore.

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