SciPy: Interested in adopting PRIMA, but little appetite for more Fortran code

Re:SciPy: Interested in adopting PRIMA, but little appetite ... by wirrbel on Thursday May 18, 2023 @11:10AM (#35989064)

> Using f2c as suggested seems like a worse alternative, not a solution.

essentially madness.

Modern fortran is quite nice, much nicer than C from a Python programmer's perspective.

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Re:SciPy: Interested in adopting PRIMA, but little appetite ... by zaikunzhang on Thursday May 18, 2023 @03:02PM (#35992559)

> Modern fortran is quite nice, much nicer than C from a Python programmer's perspective.

Totally agree. I hope everyone making comments on Fortran can spend a few minitues reading what modern Fortran is, e.g., by checking

https://fortran-lang.org/en/

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Re:SciPy: Interested in adopting PRIMA, but little appetite ... by drbaba on Friday May 19, 2023 @04:31AM (#35999297)

I used Fortran 2008 a lot some years ago; initially I wanted to write a C++ wrapper around a Fortran library that seemed useful, but ended up liking the language better than C++ and just did the whole project in it.

I think a lot of people don’t realize that modern Fortran actually supports object-oriented programming and Matlab-style array slicing, and comes with built-in support for e.g. matrices and complex numbers. It even has some features inspired by functional languages, like being able to mark functions as pure (side-effect free). Combined with its general speed, this makes it a pretty nice language for numerical code.

Although for most new users, I think Julia might be a better option than Fortran these days.

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