Re:Fortran is back on the top 20 TIOBE index list
by leephillips on Thursday April 08, 2021 @01:49PM
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I’m glad you liked the article. Obviously the 10 second or so of precompilation time is a big issue for you. I guess I have no further suggestions about that other than to suggest again to look at creating sysimages (learning how to do this is on my to-do list).
Re:Fortran is back on the top 20 TIOBE index list
by enriquto on Thursday April 08, 2021 @02:14PM
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> I’m glad you liked the article.
I was particularly "seduced" by the idea of using a standard ODE solver directly on quaternions. Having worked in the smoothing of 3D camera trajectories the last year, I would have definitely loved to know that at the time!
But here, I cannot resist:
> You can just compute with floats or doubles as if the type system doesn’t exist.
Except when you can't! I want to plot a stupid array of floats. Yet it takes 10 seconds because it is juggling useless types around. A complex type system may be a nice thing to have, if you really want it, but it is definitely not "free", and it always involves serious compromises that make other things impossible or very cumbersome. I would like an option like --type=float in the interpreter that assumed that all numbers are of that type and ran extremely fast.