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Re:Show HN: A minimal Fortran TCP client and server by lordgrenville on Thursday October 31, 2019 @06:49AM (#21407390)
Plus on the topic of Data Science, R is written in a mixture of FORTRAN and C!
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Re:Show HN: A minimal Fortran TCP client and server by Annatar on Thursday October 31, 2019 @09:19AM (#21408367)
Yes, the core of R is written in Fortran because short of writing assembler code by hand, Fortran compilers generate the fastest machine code.
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