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Re:Thank You, Guido by sadfklsjlkjwt on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @12:14PM (#21399301)
Fortran from the 1980s is still supported...
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Re:Thank You, Guido by greglindahl on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @02:22PM (#21400824)
Fortran from the 1960s is still supported. Almost all modern Fortran compilers support syntax that was deprecated decades ago.
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Re:Thank You, Guido by pletnes on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @12:42PM (#21399665)
You misspelled the 1960s.
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Re:Thank You, Guido by cik on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @12:28PM (#21399481)
Hell, I fixed something in Turing last week. My eyes are still bleeding.
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Re:Thank You, Guido by gowld on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @01:25PM (#21400186)
And yet almost no one chooses to write new Fortran code for applications. We rely on a few ancient critical widely used libraries like BLAS, accessed from non-Fortran programs.
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Re:Thank You, Guido by greglindahl on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @02:22PM (#21400842)
This is not true, there are niches where Fortran is still dominant for new code.

Also for BLAS, the underlying code is usually no longer Fortran.

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