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Re:C and C++ Prioritize Performance over Correctness by kaba0 on Saturday August 19, 2023 @03:36AM (#37186441)
Aren’t many of these Fortran libraries heavily used all throughout almost any kind of application, somewhere deep down their dependency tree?
Re:C and C++ Prioritize Performance over Correctness by defrost on Saturday August 19, 2023 @03:54AM (#37186548)
Absolutely .. and generally written to a very high standard with a lot of checking, rechecking and running forwards and backwards across multiple architectures with extensive technical mailing lists.

They can still have bugs, memory issues, be called with parameters that cause resource blow outs and aren't "memory safe" in the sense that modern managed languages are.

Matlab is exactly as reliable as well written Fortran and C code can be.