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Re:You Will Probably Fail in a Boring and Project-specific Way by timf on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @08:51PM (#424325)
I agree with your sentiment as long as scaling is not a blind obesession.

But don't say Fortran as if it's slow, Fortran is still one of the predominant HPC languages :-)

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Re:You Will Probably Fail in a Boring and Project-specific Way by LogicHoleFlaw on Thursday January 08, 2009 @12:55PM (#425277)
Cue the hoary joke from the 70s:

Q: What will the High Performance Computing language of the 1980's be?

A: I don't know, but it will be called Fortran

That was one of my dad's favorites :)

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