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Re:SciPy: Interested in adopting PRIMA, but little appetite ... by domcoltd on Thursday May 18, 2023 @04:02PM (#35993323)
Hopefully, the SciPy community can stay open-minded about modern Fortran libraries.

Modern Fortran is quite different from Fortran 77, while being as powerful, if not more.

In addition, there has been a significant community effort on improving and modernising the legacy packages, the ecosystem, and the language itself.

With projects like LFortran (https://lfortran.org/), fpm (https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm), and stdlib (https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib), I believe that Fortran will enjoy prosperity again.

Re:SciPy: Interested in adopting PRIMA, but little appetite ... by nvy on Thursday May 18, 2023 @04:26PM (#35993622)
Any resources for learning Fortran in 202X that don't bother going over the old cruft?

Last time I looked (admittedly, years ago), most resources seemed to be in the vein of "here's Fortran 1990, and once you've learned that here are a few chapters on F03 and F08, treated separately".

It'd be great to learn there exists a "Fortran: the good parts" sort of thing that just completely elides the outdated stuff.

Re:SciPy: Interested in adopting PRIMA, but little appetite ... by bouchard on Thursday May 18, 2023 @05:05PM (#35994039)
I found "Modern Fortran: Building Efficient Parallel Applications" to be a pretty good read. See https://milancurcic.com/book/

Also https://fortran-lang.org/en/ is a good hub to find more information, packages, etc.

Re:SciPy: Interested in adopting PRIMA, but little appetite ... by nunuvit on Thursday May 18, 2023 @07:54PM (#35996001)
Re:SciPy: Interested in adopting PRIMA, but little appetite ... by zaikunzhang on Thursday May 18, 2023 @10:06PM (#35996935)
A list of books, tutorials, and online courses:

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

BTW, the Fortran Lang website (https://fortran-lang.org/) is THE official website of modern Fortran, maintained by the modern Fortran community.

You may also take a look at the modern Fortran discourse at

https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/

where you can find all the gurus of modern Fortran. They are very willing to help if you post a question. I have asked all my Fortran questions over there during the development of PRIMA.

Re:SciPy: Interested in adopting PRIMA, but little appetite ... by pklausler on Friday May 19, 2023 @09:12AM (#36001514)
That discourse is overrun by crazy trolls; you can do better at SO.
Re:SciPy: Interested in adopting PRIMA, but little appetite ... by zaikunzhang on Thursday May 18, 2023 @04:17PM (#35993509)
Each of LFortran, fpm, and stdlib deserve a HN front-page story :)